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What is dissolution of partnership firm?

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Dissolution means termination of the existing relationship between the partners of a firm. It means that the business will come to an end and the firm will wind up its business. Accordingly, all the assets will be realised and liabilities will be paid off. It can be dissolved either voluntarily by the partners or compulsorily by the order of the court.

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Solution 2

Dissolution of the partnership firm means complete closure of business activities and stoppage of partnership relations among all the partners.

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                                                               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
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    Furniture 2000
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Balance Sheet as on 31st March, 2013

Liabilities Amount Assets Amount
Capital A/c’s:   Plant and Machinery   40,000
Akbar 60,000 Furniture   12,000
Birbal 40,000 Sundry debtors     61,000 60,000
General reserve 20,000 Less: R.D.D.     1,000
Sundry creditors 39,700 Stock   28,300
    Bank   19,400
  1,59,700     1,59,700

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Plant and machinery ₹ 30,000.

Sundry debtors ₹ 58,000.
Furniture was taken over by Akbar for ₹ 10,000 and stock by Birbal for  27,000.
Sundry creditors were paid  ₹ 38,000 in full settlement of their claim.
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(1) Realisation Account
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(3) Bank Account


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Conversion of assets into cash on dissolution of firm.


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The firm is dissolved automatically on the retirement of a partner.


State whether the following statement is True or False.

On dissolution Cash or Bank Account is closed automatically.


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Balance Sheet as on 31st March, 2009
Liabilities Amount (Rs) Assets Amount (Rs)
Capital Account:   Bank 30,000
Anil 50,000 Stock 25,000
Sunil 30,000 Debtors 70,000
Current Account:   Plant 45,000
Anil 15,000 Building 35,000
Sunil 10,000    
Creditors 87,000    
Bills payable 13,000    
  2,05,000   2,05,000

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1) Stock Rs 20,000, Debtors Rs 60,000, Plant Rs 40,000 and Building Rs 30,000.

2) Anil agreed to pay off the bills payable.

3) Creditors were paid in full.

4) Dissolution expenses were Rs 7,000. 

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(i) Realisation Account
(ii) Bank Account
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             Balance Sheet as on 31st March, 2008

Liabilities Amount (Rs) Assets Amount (Rs)
Capital Accounts:   Machinery 25000
Pannalal 30000 Stock 10000
Babulal 10000 Debtors 27500 26000
Hiralal 10000 Less : R.D.D 1500
General Reserve 3000

Investment

12000
Creditors 20000 Profit and Loss A/c 9000
Pannalal’s Loan A/c 4000 Bank 2000
Bills payable 7000    
  84000   84000

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2) Dissolution expenses were Rs 1,500.

3) Goodwill of the firm realised Rs 12,000

Pass the necessary Journal entries in the books of the firm.


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        Balance Sheet as on 31st March, 2012

Liabilities Amount (Rs) Assets Amount (Rs)
Creditors 18000 Cash at Bank 9600
Loan 4500 Sundry Assets 51000
Capitals   Debtors 72600 69000
Mahesh 82500 Less : R.D.D. 3600
Suresh 30000 Stock 23400
Jayesh 21000 Furniture 3000
  156000   156000

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1) Mahesh will accept furniture for Rs 2,000 and agreed accept the debtors of book value of Rs 60,000 at on agreed value of Rs 51,000.

2) Suresh will accept stock at an agreed value Rs 20,000, and Sundry Assets of Book value Rs 24,000 at Rs 23,500.

3) Jayesh will accept remaining Sundry Assets for Rs 25,000 He will further accept the liability of loan along with due interest at 12% p.a.

    Interest for three months on this loan was outstanding and was not recorded in the books.

4) Expenses of dissolution were Rs 1,000 and outstanding expenses of Rs 1,200 were to be paid from the firm.

5) The remaining debtors were realised Rs 7,000. 
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1) Realisation A/c
2) Partner’s Capital A/c
3) Bank A/c


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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
Rahul’s Loan A/c 16000 Less : R.D.D 1000
Capital Account   Plant and Machinery 30000
Rahul 25000 Furniture 6000
Rohit 10000 Ramesh’s Capital A/c 3000
  82000   82000

The firm was dissolved on the above date:

  1. The Assets realised as follows:
    Debtors Rs 9,000, Plant and Machinery Rs 26,000, Stock Rs 14,000 and Furniture Rs 3,000.
  2. The Creditors were paid Rs 18,000 in full settlement and the bills payable were paid in full.
  3. The realisation expenses amounted to Rs 3,000.
  4. Ramesh become insolvent and was able to bring in only Rs 1,800 from his private estate. 

Prepare:

  1. Realisation A/c
  2. Bank A/c and
  3. Partner’s Capital A/c

State whether the following statement is ‘True’ or ‘False’
On dissolution, cash or bank account is closed automatically.


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                               Balance Sheet as on 31st Mar, 2013

Liabilities
Amount
(Rs.)
Assets
Amount
(Rs.)
Amount
(Rs.)
Sundry Creditors 20,000 Cash at Bank   8000
Bills Payable 5,000
Debtors
16000  
General Reserve 6,000 Less : R.D.D. (1000) 15,000
Rahul’s Loan A/c 16,000 Stock   20,000
Capital Account   Plant and Machinery   30,000
Rahul 25,000 Furniture   6,000
Rohit 10,000 Ramesh’s Capital Account   3,000
  82000     82000
The firm was dissolved on the above date :
(1) Assets realised as follows:
Debtors Rs.  9,000, Plant and Machinery Rs. 26,000, Stock Rs.  14,000, and Furniture Rs.  3,000.
(2) The creditors were paid Rs. 18,000, in full settlement and the bills payable were paid in full.
(3) The realisation expenses amounted to Rs. 3,000.
(4) Ramesh became insolvent and was able to bring in only Rs. 1,800 from his private estate.
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(1) Realisation account
(2) Partner’s capital account and
(3) Bank account.

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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)
General Reserve 6000 Investments 24000
Creditors 40000 Profit and loss A/c 18000
Jay's Loan A/c 8000 Bank 4000
Bills Payable 14000    
  168000   168000

On the above date the partners decided to dissolve the firm.

(1) Assets were realised as :

Machinery ₹45000 ; Stock ₹ 18000;

Investment ₹ 21000 ; Debtors ₹ 45000

(2) Dissolution expenses were ₹ 3000.

(3) Goodwill of the firm realised ₹ 24000.

Prepare : (1) Realisation Account (2) Partner's Capital Account (3) Bank Account.


State whether the following statement is True or False with reason.

At the time of dissolution, a loan from the partner will be transferred to Realisation Account.


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Ganesh and Kartik are partners sharing Profits and Losses equally. They decided to dissolve the firm on 31st March 2018. Their Balance Sheets was as under :

Balance Sheets as on 31st March 2018.
Liabilities Amount ₹ Assets Amount ₹
Creditors 18,400 Building 88,000
Bills Payable 5,600 Furniture 12,000
Reserve Fund 20,000 Debtors 32,000
Capital A/c :   Stock 24,000
Ganesh 40,000 Bills Receivable 4,000
Kartik 80,000 Cash 4,000
  1,64,000   1,64,000

Assets were realised as under :

Building ₹82,000, Debtors ₹ 22,000, Stock ₹ 20,000. Bills Receivable ₹ 3,200 and Ganesh agreed to take over Furniture for ₹10,000. Realisation Expenses amounted to ₹ 2,000.

Show Realisation A/c, Partners’ Capital A/c and Cash A/c.


Leela, Manda, and Kunda are partners in the firm ‘Janki Stores’ sharing Profits and Losses in the ratio of 3:2:1 respectively. On 31st March 2018, they decided to dissolve the firm when their Balance Sheet was as under.

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

Leela agreed to take over the Building at ₹ 1,23,600. Manda took over Goodwill, Stock, and Debtors at Book values and agreed to pay Creditors and Bills payable. Motor Car and Machinery realised ₹ 1,51,080 and ₹ 31,680 respectively. Investments were taken by Kunda at an agreed value of ₹ 55,440. Realisation expenses amounted to ₹ 6,800.

Pass necessary entries in the books of ‘Janki Stores.’


Anita and Binita are partners in a firm. Anita had taken a loan of ₹ 15,000 from the firm. How will Anita’s loan be closed in the event of dissolution of the firm?


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Write the word/term/phrase, which can substitute each of the following statements.

"Liability likely to arise in future on happening of certain events".


A partnership firm is compulsorily dissolved:


The account which is prepared on dissolution of a partnership firm:


In the event of dissolution of the firm, the partner’s assets are first used for payment of the following:


Distinguish between 'Dissolution of Partnership' and 'Dissolution of Partnership Firm' on the basis of Termination of business.


Complete the table.

Debit side total of
Realisation A/c
Credit side total of
Realisation A/c
Loss on
Realisation
 ₹ 20,000 ₹ 4,000

Dino, Manu and Ramu are Partners Sharing Profits and Losses in the Ratio 2 : 2 : 1. They decided to dissolved the firm on 31st March, 2020. When their position was as under.

Balance Sheet as on 31st March, 2020
Liabilities Amount
(₹)
Assets Amount
(₹)
Capital A/c:     Building 78,000
 Dino 26,000 66,000 Computer 45,000
 Manu  22,000 Debtors 20,000 
 Ramu 18,000 Goodwill 35,000
Creditors   80,000 Bank 8,000
Bill Payable   40,000    
    1,86,000   1,86,000

The firm was dissolved on above date and the following is the result of realisation.

  1. The Assets were realised as Building ₹ 40,000, Computer ₹ 30,000, Debtors ₹ 10,000.
  2. Realisation expenses amounted to ₹ 2,000.
  3. All partners were insolvent The following amount was recovered from them Dino ₹ 2,000 and Manu ₹ 2,000.

Prepare Necessary ledger account to close the books of the firm.


Total assets of a partnership firm, which was dissolved were ₹ 30,00,000 and its total liabilities were ₹ 6,00,000. Assets were realised at 80% and liabilities were settled at 5% less. If dissolution expenses were ₹ 30,000 the profit or loss on dissolution was ______.


Aditya, Abhinav and Ankit were partners in a firm sharing profits in the ratio of 4: 3 : 3. On 31st March, 2022, the firm was dissolved. Aditya was appointed to complete the dissolution process for which he was allowed a remuneration of ₹ 42,000. Aditya also agreed to bear dissolution expenses. Actual expenses on dissolution amounted to ₹ 33,000 which were paid by Aditya. Aditya’s Capital Account will be credited by: 


Sun and Kiran are partners sharing profits and losses equally. They decided to dissolve their firm. Assets and Liabilities have been transferred to Realisation Account. Pass necessary Journal entries for the following:

  1. All partners are agreed that the process of realisation at the time dissolution will be accomplished by Sun for which he will be paid ₹ 10,000 along with the amount of expense which amounted to 2% of total value realised from the Assets on dissolution. Some assets were sold for Cash at a cumulative Value of ₹ 12,00,000 and the remaining were taken over by creditors at a valuation of ₹ 3,00,000.
  2. Deferred Advertisement Expenditure A/c appeared in the books at ₹ 28,000.
  3. Out of the Stock of ₹ 1,20,000; Kiran (a partner) took over 1/3 of the stock at a discount of 25% and 50% of remaining stock was took over by a Creditor of ₹ 30,000 in full settlement of his claim. Balance amount of stock realized at ₹ 25,000.
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Amul and Anand are partners in the firm sharing profits and losses in the ratio of 4 : 1. They decided to dissolve the partnership on 31st March, 2023 on which date their Balance Sheet stood as follows:

Balance Sheet as on 31st March, 2023
Liabilities Amount (₹) Amount (₹) Assets Amount (₹) Amount (₹)
Capital:     Furniture   19,600
Amul 1,26,000 1,82,000 Plant   91,000
Anand 56,000 Trademark   11,200
Sundry Creditors   49,000 Sundry Debtors 67,200  
Bank Loan   21 ,000 Less: R.D.D. 4,200 63,000
      Stock   42,000
      Cash in Hand   14,000
      Advertisement Suspense   11,200
    2,52,000     2,52,000

Additional Information:

(1) Plant and Stock taken over by Amul at ₹ 1,09,200 and ₹ 30,800 respectively.

(2) Debtors realised 90% of the book value and Trademark at ₹ 7,000 and Goodwill was realised for ₹ 37,800.

(3) Unrecorded assets estimated ₹ 6,300 was sold for ₹ 2,100.

( 4) ₹ 1,400 Discount were allowed by creditors while paying their claim.

(5) The Realisation expenses amounted to ₹ 4,900.

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Lal, Bal and Pal were partners sharing profits and losses in the ratio of 2 : 2 : 1. The following is the Balance Sheet as on 31st March, 2020.

Balance sheet as on 31st March 2020
Liabilities Amount (₹) Assets Amount (₹)
Capital A/c   Machinery 50,000
Lal 60,000 Investments 24,000
Bal 20,000 Debtors 55,000 52,000
Pal 20,000 Less: R.D.D. (3,000)
General Reserve 6,000 Stock 20,000
Creditors 48,000 Profit and loss A/c 18,000
Bills Payable 14,000 Bank 4,000
  168000   168000

On the above date the partners decided to dissolve the firm.

(1) Assets were realised as:

Machinery ₹ 45000
Stock ₹ 18000
Investment ₹ 21000
Debtors ₹ 45000

(2) Dissolution expenses were ₹ 3000.

(3) Goodwill of the firm realised ₹ 24000.

Prepare:

  1. Realisation Account
  2. Partner's Capital Account
  3. Bank Account.

Read the following hypothetical situation and answer question on the basis of the same.

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The partnership deed provide that interest on capital will be allowed @10% p.a. The amount of interest on Ishita's capital will be:


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Give the journal entry passed by the firm to realise the payment from the debtor.


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