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Question
If the number of partners in a firm falls below two, the firm stands_________.
Options
dissolved
established
realisation
None of these
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Solution
If the number of partners in a firm falls below two, the firm stands dissolved.
Explanation:
As per the Indian Partnership Act of 1932, at least two people are required to form a partnership firm. Thus, if the minimum number of members falls below two, then the partnership firm gets automatically dissolved.
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| Balance Sheet as on 31st March 2012 | |||
| Liabilities | Amount (Rs) | Assets | Amount (Rs) |
| Sundry Creditors | 15,000 | Cash at bank | 3,000 |
| Uday’s Wife’s Loan | 30,000 | Debtors 67,500 | |
| Capital A/c | (–) R.D.D. 7,500 | 60,000 | |
| Uday | 1,38,000 | Stock | 135000 |
| Prabhakar | 90,000 | Machinery | 45000 |
| Furniture | 30000 | ||
| 2,73,000 | 2,73,000 | ||
The assets were realised as under:
Goodwill Rs. 15,000, Stock Rs. 1,20,000 and Debtors Rs. 54,000.
Machinery was taken over by Prabhakar at Rs. 40,000 and furniture by Uday at book value.
Uday agreed to discharge his wife’s loan.
The creditors were paid at a rebate of Rs. 3,000
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Balance Sheet as on 31st March, 2016
| Liabilities | Amount | Assets | Amount |
| Sundry creditors | 42,000 | Plant and machinery | 40,000 |
| Bhavin's loan | 10,000 | Investment | 16,000 |
| Reserve fund | 40,000 | Stock | 60,000 |
| Capital accounts : | Debtors 36,000 | ||
| Ashwin | 40,000 | Less : R.D.D 2,000 | |
| Bhavin | 20,000 | Bank | 10,000 |
| Pravin | 8,000 | ||
| 1,96,000 | 1,60,000 |
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1. Investment Rs 10,000. Stock Rs 48,000, and Debtors Rs 30,000
2. Plant and machinery were taken over by Ashwin at book value.
3. Sundry creditors and Bhavin's loan were paid in full.
4. Realisation expenses incurred Rs 2,000.
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(1) Realisation Account
(2) Partners' Capital Account
(3) Bank Account
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Balance Sheet as on 31st March, 2005
| Liabilities | Amount (Rs) | Assets | Amount (Rs) |
|
Sushil’s Capital |
20,000 | Plant and Machinery | 15,000 |
| Sumit's Capital | 18,000 | Stock | 15,000 |
| General Reserve | 5,000 |
Sundry Debtors |
22,000 |
| Sumit’s Loan A/c | 2,000 | Bank |
3,000 |
| Sundry Creditors | 10,000 | ||
| 55,000 | 55,000 |
The Assets realised as follows: Stock Rs 14,000, Plant and Machinery Rs 12,000 and Debtors Rs 20,000. The Sundry Creditors were paid Rs 9,000 in full settlement.
Prepare: Realisation Account, Partners Capital Accounts and Bank Account.
Ganesh and Chandan were partners sharing profits and losses in the proportion of 3:2. They dissolve the partnership firm on 31st March, 2011 when their position was as follows:
Balance Sheet as on 31st March, 2011
| Liabilities | Amount (Rs) |
Assets | Amount (Rs) | |
| Sundry Creditors | 25000 | Debtors | 112500 | 100000 |
| Bank overdraft | 20000 | Less : R.D.D | 12500 | |
| Reserve Fund | 30000 | Stock | 225000 | |
| Capital Accounts: | Furniture | 50000 | ||
| Ganesh | 230000 | Motor Car | 75000 | |
| Chandan | 150000 | Cash in hand | 5000 | |
| 455000 | 455000 | |||
The Assets realised as follows: Debtors Rs 90,000, Stock Rs 2,00,000, and Goodwill Rs 25,000, Motor Car was taken over by Ganesh for Rs 70,000 and Furniture by Chandan for Rs 60,000.
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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 | |||
The firm was dissolved as follows:
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.
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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 March, 2016
| Liabilities | Amount (Rs.) |
Assets | Amount (Rs.) |
| Capital A/c : | Machinery | 2,00,000 | |
| Ram | 2,40,000 | Stock | 80,000 |
| Laxman | 80,000 | Debtors 2,20,000 | |
| Bharat | 80,000 | Less : R.D.D. (12,000) | 2,08,000 |
| General Reserve | 24,000 | Investment | 96,000 |
| Creditors | 1,92,000 | Profit and Loss A/c | 72,000 |
| Bills Payable | 56,000 | Bank balance | 16,000 |
| 6,72,000 | 6,72,000 |
On the above date the partners decided to dissolve the firm:
(1) Assets were realised as under -
| Machinery | Rs. 1,80,000 |
| Stock | Rs. 72,000 |
| Investments | Rs. 84,000 |
| Debtors | Rs. 1,80,000 |
(2) Dissolution expenses were Rs. 12,000.
(3) Goodwill of the firm realised 96,000
Prepare :
(1) Realisation Account
(2) Partner's Capital Account
(3) Bank Account
Manish and Co. Ltd. made an issue of 40000 equity shares of 20 each payable as follows :
Application ₹ 5 per share
Allotment ₹ 10 per share
First call ₹ 3 per share
Second call and
final call ₹ 2 per share
The company received applications for 50000 share of which applications for 10000 shares were rejected and money refunded . All the shareholders paid upto second call except Sunita , the allotee of 400 shares , failed to pay the final call. the expenses of issuing amounted to ₹ 6000 .
Pass Journal entries in the books of Manish and Co . Ltd.
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- A machinery with a book value of ₹ 6,00,000 was taken over by Gaurav at 50% and stock worth ₹ 5,000 was taken over by a creditor of ₹ 9,000 in full settlement of his claim.
- Land and building (book value ₹ 3,00,000) were sold for ₹ 4,00,000 through a broker who charged 2% commission.
- The remaining creditors were paid ₹ 76,000 in full settlement of their claim and the remaining assets were taken over by Vaibhav for ₹ 17,000.
- Bank loan of ₹ 3,00,000 was paid along with interest of ₹ 21,000.
Pass necessary journal entries for the above transactions in the books of the firm.
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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.
Creditors ₹ 30,000, Bills Payable ₹ 20,000 and Bank Loan ₹ 10,000. Available Bank Balance ₹ 40,000 what will be the amount that creditors will get in case of all partner's insolvency.
Insolvent partners capital A/c Debit side is ₹ 15,000 & insolvent partner brought cash ₹ 6,000. Calculate the amount of Insolvency Loss to be distributed among the solvent partners.
Realisation profit of a firm is ₹ 6,000, partners share Profit & Loss in the ratio of 3: 2: 1. Calculate the amount of Realisation Profit to be credited to Partners Capital A/c.
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.
Consider the following statements
Statement 1: "The firm is dissolved automatically, on the retirement all partners."
Statement 2: A firm dissolves on the retirement of a partner.
What Journal Entry will be passed on dissolution of partnership firm, when creditors of ₹ 40,000 accepted investments of ₹ 50,000 (Book value)?
Which of the following is the characteristic of a partnership firm?
Which of the following does not result into reconstitution of a partnership firm?
Riddhi and Siddhi are partners sharing profits and losses in the ratio of 2:1. The following is their balance sheet as on 31st March, 2019.
| Balance Sheet as on 31st March, 2019 | ||||
| Liabilities | Amount (₹) | Assets | Amount (₹) | |
| Capital A/c: | Building | 60,000 | ||
| Riddhi | 80,000 | Furniture | 24,000 | |
| Siddhi | 60,000 | Machinery | 20,000 | |
| Reserve Fund | 16,000 | Debtors | 17,600 | 16,000 |
| Siddhi's Loan A/c | 4,000 | Less: RDD | 1,600 | |
| Creditors | 30,000 | Stock | 40,000 | |
| Investment | 8,000 | |||
| Interest Receivable | 2,000 | |||
| Bank | 20,000 | |||
| 1,90,000 | 1,90,000 | |||
The firm was dissolved on 31st March 2019.
- The assets realised were: Machinery ₹ 22,000, Building ₹ 28,000, Stock ₹ 38,000 and Debtors ₹ 15,000.
- Riddhi took over the Investment at ₹ 10,000 and Furniture at book value.
- Siddhi agreed to accept ₹ 3,000 in full settlement of her Loan Account.
- Dissolution expenses amounted to ₹ 4,000.
- Interest receivable could not be recovered.
Prepare Realisation Account, Partners' Capital Account, Siddhi's Loan Account and Bank Account.
Complete the table.
| Creditors | Bills Payable | Third-Party Liabilities |
| ₹ 16,000 | ₹ 12,000 | ? |
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.
- The Assets were realised as Building ₹ 40,000, Computer ₹ 30,000, Debtors ₹ 10,000.
- Realisation expenses amounted to ₹ 2,000.
- 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.
Complete the following table:
| Debit side total of Capital A/c |
Credit side total of Capital A/c |
Cash brought by Partner |
| ₹ 51,000 | ? | ₹ 17,000 |
Hema, Manisha and Limsy were in partnership firm sharing profits and losses in the ratio of 5:3:2. They decided to dissolve their partnership firm on 31st March 2019 and their Balance sheet as on that date stood as:
| Balance sheet as on 31st March,2019 | |||
| Liabilities | Amount ₹ | Assets | Amount ₹ |
| Capital Account: | Machinery | 1,00,000 | |
| Hema | 1,50,000 | Debtors | 50,000 |
| Manisha | 80,000 | Stock | 70,000 |
| Reserve Fund | 10,000 | Cash at Bank | 30,000 |
| Sundry Creditors | 20,000 | Limsy Capital A/c | 20,000 |
| Bills payable | 10,000 | ||
| 2,70,000 | 2,70,000 | ||
The firm was dissolved on 31st March, 2019 and assets were realised as under:
- Machinery realised 60% of its book value.
- Out of debtors, Mr. Jagdish, our customer for ₹ 20,000 was declared insolvent and nothing could be recovered from him. Other debtors are good and recovered and realised.
- Hema took stock at an agreed value of ₹ 50,000.
- Creditors and Bills payable were paid at 10% discount.
- Limsy became insolvent and nothing was recovered from her estate.
Prepare:
- Realisation Account
- Partners’ Capital Account
- Bank Account
Following is the Balance sheet of Ram, Shyam and Murari as on 31st March, 2023.
| Liabilities | Amount (₹) | Assets | Amount (₹) |
| Capital | Furniture | 10,800 | |
| Ram | 18,000 | Debtors | 72,000 |
| Shyam | 10,800 | Stocks | 86,400 |
| Creditors | 1,44,000 | Cash | 3,600 |
| Ram's Loan | 36,000 | 3,600 | 36,000 |
| 2,08,800 | 2,08,800 |
Due to the inability to pay the creditors, the firm is dissolved, Shyam and Murari cannot pay anything. Ram can contribute only ₹ 5,400 from his private estate. Stock realised ₹ 54,000. Debtors realised ₹ 57,600 and Furniture is sold for ₹ 3,600. Realisation Expenses amounted to ₹ 10,800.
Prepare necessary Ledger account to close the books of the firm.
Insolvent partner Capital A/c debit side total is ₹ 25,000 and credit side total is ₹ 10,000. Calculate deficiency.
______ means winding-up of partnership firm.
Mita and Sita, sharing profits in, the ratio 2 : 1, decided to dissolve their partnership firm on 31st March, 2022, on which date their Balance Sheet was as under:
| Balance Sheet of Mita and Sita as on 31st March, 2022 |
|||||
| Liabilities | (₹) | Assets | (₹) | ||
| Sundry Creditors | 40,000 | Land & Building | 29,000 | ||
| Sita's Son's Loan | 2,000 | Plant & Machinery | 20,000 | ||
| Bank Overdraft | 8,000 | Stock | 3,000 | ||
| Capital Accounts: | Debtors | 26,400 | 26,000 | ||
| Mita | 20,000 | 30,000 | Less: Provision for Doubtful Debts |
400 | |
| Sita | 10,000 | Bank | 2,000 | ||
| 80,000 | 80,000 | ||||
The partnership firm was dissolved on the date of the Balance Sheet subject to the following adjustments:
- Trade creditors accepted plant and machinery at an agreed valuation of 10% less than the book value and the balance in cash in full settlement of their claims.
- Debtors of ₹ 1,000 proved bad.
- Sita took over the stock at a discount of 20%.
- Realisation expenses of ₹ 1,100 were paid by the firm.
You are required to prepare the Realisation Account.
Choose the correct order in which a partnership firm, at the time of its dissolution, will apply the amount realised from the sale of its assets, including any amount contributed by the partners, towards the payment of:
P: Partners' loan
Q: Firm's debts
R: Balance of partners' capital
S: Surplus divided amongst the partners in their profit-sharing ratio
Ira (a partner in a firm) was allowed to retain the whole of the stock as her remuneration for services rendered by her in the course of dissolution of the firm. The value of stock was ₹ 10,000 which had been transferred to the Realisation Account.
Complying with the accounting principle of full disclosure, record the above transaction in the books of the partnership firm at the time of its dissolution.
