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Evidencia 5: Summary “Export-import theory”

Contar con los conocimientos necesarios para realizar un proceso de exportación,

requiere no solo de manejar habilidades lectoras para apropiar las normas y pasos
a seguir, sino también comprender y extraer los aspectos más importantes de
cada texto. Existen gran cantidad de textos referentes exportación e importación
en inglés, por lo cual es necesario fortalecer las competencias en dicha lengua.

Para reforzar lo mencionado, realice las siguientes actividades:

1. Lea el siguiente texto:

Export-Import Theory1

Setting up the business

Whether it is a new or existing export-import business, the legal form, or

structure, will determine how the business is to be conducted, its tax
liability, and other important considerations. Each form of business
organization has its own advantages and disadvantages, and the
entrepreneur has to select the one that best fulfills the goals of the
entrepreneur and the business. Selection of an appropriate business
organization is a task that requires accounting and legal expertise and
should be done with the advice of a competent attorney or accountant.

Ownership structure

In this section, we examine different forms of business organizations: sole

proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, and limited liability companies.

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Belay, S. (2009). Export-Import Theory, Practices, and Procedures. (2a ed.). New York: Routledge.
Sole proprietorships

A sole proprietorship is a firm owned and operated by one individual. No

separate legal entity exists. There is one principal in the business who has
total control over all export-import operations and who can make decisions
without consulting anyone. The major advantages of sole proprietorships
are as follows:

1. They are easy to organize and simple to control. Establishing an export-

import business as sole proprietorship is simple and inexpensive and
requires little or no government approval. At the state level, registration of
the business name is required, while at the federal level, sole proprietors
need to keep accurate accounting records and attach a profit or loss
statement for the business when filing individual tax returns (Schedule C,
Internal Revenue Service Form 1040). They must operate on a calendar
year and can use the cash or accrual method of accounting.

2. They are more flexible to manage than partnerships or corporations. The

owner makes all operational and management decisions concerning the
business. The owner can remove money or other assets of the business
without legal or tax consequences. He or she can also easily transfer or
terminate the business.

3. Sole proprietorships are subject to minimal government regulations

versus other business concerns.

4. The owner of a sole proprietorship is taxed as an individual, at a rate

lower than the corporate income tax rate. Losses from the export import
business can be applied by the owner to offset taxable income from other
sources. Sole proprietors are also allowed to establish tax exempt
retirement accounts. (Harper, 1991; Cheeseman, 2006a)
The major disadvantage of running an export-import concern as a sole
proprietorship is the risk of unlimited liability. The owner is personally liable
for the debts and other liabilities of the business. Insurance can be bought
to protect against these liabilities; however, if insurance protection is not
sufficient to cover legal liability for defective products or debts, judgment
creditors’ next recourse is the personal assets of the owner. Another
disadvantage is that the proprietor’s access to capital is limited to personal
funds plus any loans that can be obtained. In addition, very few individuals
have all the necessary skills to run an export-import business, and the
owner may lack certain skills. The business may also terminate upon the
death or disability of the owner.

Establishing an appropriate business organization: pointers

 Does the entrepreneur intend to be the sole owner of the export-import

business? If not, how many people have an ownership interest?

 Does the entrepreneur need additional capital and/or expertise?

 What legal form provides the greatest flexibility for management?

 What legal form affords the most advantageous tax treatment for the
business concern and individual entrepreneurs?

 Which legal structure is easy and less expensive to establish and subject
to a low degree of government regulation?

 How important is it to limit personal liability of owners?

 o Which legal structure is the most appropriate in light of the goals and
objectives of the export-import business? (Belay, 2009).

2. Elabore una lista de vocabulario sobre el texto, mínimo de 15 palabras y escriba

su respectivo significado en inglés.
Advantages: Circumstanceor situation that gives superiority in
something._______________________________________________________
Attorney: Person legally authorized to advise and defend the rights and
interests of another person in legal matters and represent it in a
lawsuit.__________________________________________________________
Without: Indicates lack or lack of something material or immaterial.
_______________________________________________________
Disadvantages: Circumstance of being worse or being in a worse situation one
thing with respect to others of the same nature with which it is compared. Less
favourable situation in which a person or thing is with respect to others with
which it
iscompared.______________________________________________________
Proprietorships: Property rights In the right, the domain or property, is the
direct and immediate power over an object or good, by which is attributed to its
owner the ability to dispose of it, without further limitations than those imposed
by
law.____________________________________________________________
Returns: The return is the act of giving something back to someone. It is a
process that is based on a right of possession of a certain person with respect to
a certain good that was delivered with some type of specific
objective.________________________________________________________
Skills: The ability is the innate aptitude, talent, skill or ability that a person holds
to carry out and of course with success, certain activity,
work____________________________________________________________
Loans: A loan is an operation by which a financial institution puts at our disposal
a certain amount of money through
acontract.________________________________________________________
Applied: That puts effort, interest and perseverance in the accomplishment of a
work or in the development of an activity, especially in the
study.___________________________________________________________
Judgment: Faculty of understanding, by virtue of which man can distinguish
good from evil and true from
false.___________________________________________________________
Income: Amount of one yearned or
collected.________________________________________________________
Little: That has a smaller size than
 normal.__________________________________________________________
Upon: Heritage prefix of Latin origin that enters the formation of names with the
meaning of
'above','besides'.__________________________________________________
Losses: Small amount of blood or discharge from the womb that is abnormally
expelled outside of the menstrual
period.__________________________________________________________
Entrepeneur:_ [person] That has decision and initiative to perform actions that
are difficult or involve some risk.
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3. El texto sugerido al inicio de esta evidencia cuenta con varios párrafos, y al

interior de cada párrafo se encuentran varias ideas principales. Por favor, lea el
material complementario “Identifying the main idea” para conocer cómo se
puede encontrar la idea principal en un párrafo escrito en inglés.

4. Luego de analizar el material complementario, por favor escriba las ideas

principales de cada párrafo, en presente simple, en inglés. No haga
transcripción literal de los párrafos. A continuación, transforme la oración a
presente progresivo, también en inglés.

Simple Present Tense Present Progressive Tense

How to carry out a business How to carry out a business at present
There are different forms of Nowadays There are different forms of
commercial organizations commercial organizations
The director controls all export and Now The director is controlling all
import operations export and import operations
The sole proprietors are simple and Now The sole proprietors are simple
low in costs and low in costs
The individual owners have a lower At the moment The individual owners
rate than the tax rate have a lower rate than the tax rate
The individual companies are Today The individual companies are
governmental governmental
The owners are in charge of making all At present The owners are in charge of
the decisions making all the decisions
5. Organice las ideas en un solo resumen, de manera que se conecten
coherentemente, en 15 líneas.
How to conduct a business today?
Today there are different forms of commercial organizations. Increasing the
number of treaties with other countries.
Now the director controls the processes that involve export and import products.
The owners are in charge of making all the decisions in the structure to
understand and communicate the messages between Colombian exporters and
English-speaking buyers. Today, individual companies are government agencies
that receive support from the state, at this time individual owners have a lower
interest rate on loans than the tax rate,
Now the sole proprietors are simple and inexpensive about the international
trade
process_________________________________________________________
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Nota: para el desarrollo de esta evidencia se debe tener en cuenta el material de

formación “Using simple present and progressive to export” y el material
complementario asociado a esta actividad de aprendizaje.

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 Criterios de evaluación
Realiza resúmenes de la información relevante y detallada de un texto técnico en
inglés.