What is the full form of dBA?

Answer 1

Depending on the context, either "doing business as" or "doctor of business administration." "Doing Business As" is what I think you're talking about. In most states, if not all, the government assumes that if you open a business you'll use your own name on it--Sam Franklin Plumbing, for instance. Sam might decide he wants to call his shop "Mountain View Plumbing," and to do so he has to file a DBA statement. Otherwise he can be charged with fraud. Sam might also decide to open businesses that have nothing to do with plumbing--his wife wants to open a nail salon, his kids want to open an autobody shop, one of his employees' wives would like to start a daycare in one of the houses Sam bought to flip but can't sell. Sam can set up a holding company named Sam Franklin Enterprises, and all these offshoot businesses would have their own DBA statements on file.