Partnership in Business Organisation

Partnership

Partnership' is an association of two or more persons who pool their financial and managerial resources and agree to carry on a business, and share its profit. The persons who form a partnership are individually known as partners and collectively a firm or partnership firm.

Let's assume that Gopal joins hand with Rahim to start a big grocery shop. Here both Gopal and Rahim are called partners who are running the partnership firm jointly. Both of them will pool their resources and carry on business by applying their expertise. They will share the profits and losses in the agreed ratio. In fact, for all terms and conditions of their working, they have to sit together to decide about all aspects. There must be an agreement between them. The agreement may be in oral, written or implied. When the agreement is in writing it is termed as partnership deed. However, in the absence of an agreement, the provisions of the Indian Partnership Act 1932 shall apply.

Partnership form of business organisation in India is governed by the Indian Partnership Act, 1932 which defines partnership as 'the relation between persons who have agreed to share the profits of the business carried on by all or any of them acting for all