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What is a capital deficiency?
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Solution 2
The debit balance of an insolvent partner’s capital account that cannot be satisfied due to lack of surplus balance is called capital deficiency. This deficiency is to be borne by all the solvent partners in their profit sharing ratio.
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Mr. Aaba and Mr. Baba are equal partners whose Balance Sheet as on 31 st March, 2012 was as under:
Balance Sheet as on
31st March, 2012
| Liabilities | Amount(Rs.) | Assets | Amount(Rs.) |
| Sundry Creditors | 16000 | Cash in hand | 500 |
|
Capital A/c Aaba Baba |
2000 2000 |
Stock | 4500 |
| Debtors | 4000 | ||
| Plant and machinery | 5000 | ||
| Furniture | 2000 | ||
| Land and Building | 4000 | ||
| 20000 | 20000 |
Due to weak financial position of the partners the firm is dissolved.
Aaba and Baba are not able to contribute anything from their private estate, hence they are declared insolvent.
The assets are realised as follows :-
Stock Rs. 3,000, Plant and Machinery Rs. 3,000, Furniture Rs. 1,000, Land and Building Rs. 2,000 and Debtors Rs. 1,000 only.
Realisation expenses amounted to Rs. 500.
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(b) A second creditor for Rs 75,000 accepted furniture at Rs 60,000 in full settlement of his claim.
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| Balance Sheet as on 31.03.2013 | |||
| Liabilities | Amount Rs | Assets | Amount Rs. |
| Sundry Creditor | 12,500 | Debtors 56,250 | |
| Bank Overdraft | 10,000 | Less: R.D.D. 6,250 | 50000 |
| Reserve Fund | 15,000 | Stock | 112500 |
| Capital Accounts: | Furniture | 25000 | |
| Devendra 1,15,000 | Motor Car | 37500 | |
| Ganesh 75,000 | Cash in hand | 2500 | |
| 227500 | 227500 | ||
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Balance Sheet as on 31st March, 2010
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| Sundry Creditors | 21000 | Plant and Machinery | 20000 | |
| Y’s loan | 5000 | Investment | 8000 | |
| Reserve fund | 20000 | Stock | ||
| Capital Account: | Debtors | 18000 | 17000 | |
| X | 20000 | Less : R.D.D | 1000 | |
| Y | 10000 | Cash in hand | 2000 | |
| Z | 4000 | Cash at Bank | 3000 | |
| 80000 | 80000 | |||
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Balance Sheet as on 31st December, 2011
| Liabilities | Amount (Rs) | Assets | Amount (Rs) | |
| Sundry Creditors | 20000 | Cash at Bank | 8000 | |
| Bills payable | 5000 | Stock | 20000 | |
| General Reserve | 6000 | Debtors | 16000 | 15000 |
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| Capital Account | Plant and Machinery | 30000 | ||
| Rahul | 25000 | Furniture | 6000 | |
| Rohit | 10000 | Ramesh’s Capital A/c | 3000 | |
| 82000 | 82000 | |||
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- The realisation expenses amounted to Rs 3,000.
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- Realisation A/c
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Balance Sheet as on 31st December, 2011
| Liabilities | Amount (Rs) | Assets | Amount (Rs) |
| Capital Accounts | Sadanand’s Capital A/c | 2000 | |
| Shiv | 6000 | Buildings | 18300 |
| Sadashiv | 4000 |
Machinery |
12700 |
| Parvati’s Loan | 10000 |
Debtors |
9100 |
| Sundry Creditors | 30000 |
Bank |
7900 |
| 50000 | 50000 |
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(ii) Realisation expenses amounted to Rs 1,300.
(iii) Sadanand was unable to contribute anything-
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Balance sheet as on 31st March 2013
| Liabilities | Amount (₹) | Assets | Amount (₹) | |
| Capital A/c | Machinery | 50000 | ||
| Jay | 60000 | Stock | 20000 | |
| Ajay | 20000 | Debtors | 55000 | 52000 |
| Vijay | 20000 | Less : R.D.D. | (3000) | |
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| Creditors | 40000 | Profit and loss A/c | 18000 | |
| Jay's Loan A/c | 8000 | Bank | 4000 | |
| Bills Payable | 14000 | |||
| 168000 | 168000 | |||
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(1) Assets were realised as :
Machinery ₹45000 ; Stock ₹ 18000;
Investment ₹ 21000 ; Debtors ₹ 45000
(2) Dissolution expenses were ₹ 3000.
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| Balance Sheets as on 31st March 2018. | |||
| Liabilities | Amount (₹) | Assets | Amount (₹) |
| Creditors | 28,800 | Building | 1,02,000 |
| Bills Payable | 21,600 | Machinery | 73,000 |
| Capital A/c’s | Motor Car | 1,67,600 | |
| Leela | 2,27,160 | Goodwill | 45,600 |
| Manda | 1,44,000 | Investment | 62,400 |
| Kunda | 1,08,000 | Debtors | 30,600 |
| Stock | 45,000 | ||
| Bank | 3,360 | ||
| 5,29,560 | 5,29,560 | ||
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Pass necessary entries in the books of ‘Janki Stores.’
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| Balance Sheets as on 31st March, 2019 | |||
| Liabilities | Amount (₹) | Assets | Amount (₹) |
| Capital: | Land | 2,10,000 | |
| Sangeeta | 60,000 | Plant | 20,000 |
| Anita | 40,000 | Goodwill | 15,000 |
| Smita | 30,000 | Debtors | 1,25,000 |
| Sangeeta’s Loan A/c | 1,20,000 | Loans and Advances | 15,000 |
| Sundry Creditors | 1,20,000 | Bank | 5,000 |
| Bills Payable | 20,000 | ||
| 3,90,000 | 3,90,000 | ||
They decided to dissolve the firm as follows:
1. Assets realised as; Land recovered ₹ 1,80,000; Goodwill for ₹ 75,000; Loans and Advances realised ₹ 12,000; 10% of the Debts proved bad;
2. Sangeeta took Plant at book value.
3. Creditors and Bills payable paid at 5% discount.
4. Sangeeta’s Loan was discharged along with ₹ 6,000 as Interest.
5. There was a contingent liability in respect of bills of ₹ 1,00,000 which was under discount. Out of them, a holder of one bill of ₹ 20,000 became insolvent
Show Realisation Account, Partners Capital Account, and Bank Account.
Kalpana and Bela were partners sharing profits and losses in the ratio of 3: 2. Their Balance Sheet as on 31st March, 2019 was as follows:
| Balance Sheet as on 31st March 2019 | |||
| Liabilities | Amount (₹) | Assets | Amount (₹) |
| Capital Accounts: | Building | 14,000 | |
| Kalpana | 20,000 | Plant | 18,000 |
| Bela | 12,000 | Debtors | 28,000 |
| Current Accounts: | Stock | 10,000 | |
| Kalpana | 6,000 | Bank | 12,000 |
| Bela | 4,000 | ||
| Creditors | 34,800 | ||
| Bills Payable | 5,200 | ||
| 82,000 | 82,000 | ||
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(1) Plant ₹ 16,000, Building ₹ 12,000, Stock ₹ 8,000 and Debtors ₹ 24,000.
(2) Kalpana agreed to pay off the Bill Payable.
(3) Creditors were paid in full.
(4) Dissolution expenses were ₹ 2,800.
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R: Balance of partners' capital
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