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State whether the following statement is True or False with reason.
The insolvency loss at the time of dissolution of the firm is shared by the solvent partners in their profit sharing ratio.
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False
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Solution
This statement is True.
In the partnership, partners' liability is unlimited and in case of insolvency loss, legally solvent partners are ultimately liable and are suppose to bear the loss of an insolvent partner in their profit sharing ratio.
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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 |
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| Ganesh 75,000 | Cash in hand | 2500 | |
| 227500 | 227500 | ||
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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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Balance Sheet as on 31st March, 2010
| Liabilities | Amount (Rs) | Assets | Amount (Rs) | |
| Sundry Creditors | 15400 | Cash at Bank | 3500 | |
| Bills payable | 3600 | Stock | 19800 | |
| A’s loan A/c | 10000 | Debtors | 15000 | 14000 |
| Capital Account: | Less : Provision | 1000 | ||
| A | 20000 | Join Life Policy | 4000 | |
| B | 16000 | Plant and Machinery | 43700 | |
| C | 8000 | |||
| Reserve Fund | 12000 | |||
| 85000 | 85000 | |||
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1) Join Life Policy was taken over by Mr. A at Rs 5,000.
2) Stock realised Rs 18,000, Debtors realised Rs 14,500, Plant and Machinery was sold for Rs 36,000.
3) Liabilities were paid in full. In addition one bill for Rs 700 under discount was dishonoured and had to be taken up by the firm.
4) There were no realisation expenses.
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Balance Sheet as on 31st December, 2011
| Liabilities | Amount (Rs) | Assets | Amount (Rs) |
| Capital Accounts: | Building | 73,900 | |
| Gautam | 75000 | Furniture | 44,100 |
| Virat | 45000 | Stock | 25,400 |
| Reserve Fund | 27,000 |
Debtors |
33,600 |
| Creditors | 48,500 | Cash | 15,000 |
| Bank Loan | 11,500 | Ashwin’s Capital | 15,000 |
| 207000 | 207000 |
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(i) The realisation of Assets were as follows:
a) The stock was completely damaged and could realise worth Rs 16,500 only.
b) Building was sold for Rs 49,800.
c) Furniture was realised by the firm at Rs 23,100 less than the book value.
d) A Customer who owes Rs 14,400 became insolvent and nothing could be recovered from his private estate.
(ii) Creditors were paid for Rs 36,900 in full settlement and Bank Loan was discharged fully.
(iii) The expenses of realisation Rs 4,100
(iv) Ashwin became insolvent and the firm could recover only Rs 4,000 from his private estate.
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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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(i) The sundry Assets realised as follows:
Building Rs 10,900, Machinery Rs 8,200, Debtors Rs 6,800.
(ii) Realisation expenses amounted to Rs 1,300.
(iii) Sadanand was unable to contribute anything-
Whereas Rs 1,100 and Rs 900 were recovered from the realisation of private estate of Shiv and Sadashiv respectively.
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Balance Sheet as on 31st December, 2011
| Liabilities | Amount (Rs) | Assets | Amount (Rs) |
| Capital Accounts | Currnet Accounts | ||
| Ganga | 25000 | Yamuna | 20000 |
| Yamuna | 10000 | Godavari | 4000 |
| Godavari | 5000 | Premises | 17200 |
| Ganga’s Currnet A/c | 3000 | Machinery | 10800 |
| Sundry Creditors | 4000 | Debtors | 9600 |
| Bank loan | 3000 | Cash | 6400 |
| 50000 | 50000 |
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Balance sheet as on 31st MArch 2016
| Liabilities | Amount | Assets | Assets | |
| Capital A/cs : | Cash at bank | 18000 | ||
| Jay | 150000 | Stock | 75000 | |
| Ajay | 150000 | Furniture | 90000 | |
| Reserve fund | 30000 | Investment | 30000 | |
| Loan from Jay | 3000 | Machinery | 90000 | |
| Bills payable | 6000 | Buildings | 45000 | |
| Creditors | 30000 | Debtors | 24000 | 21000 |
| Less : R.D.D | 3000 | |||
| 369000 | 369000 | |||
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(1) Jay look over the investment at ₹ 27600 and Ajay took over the furniture at ₹ 84000.
(2) The assets were realised as follows :
Stock 73500 ;
Debtors 22500 ;
Machinery 84000 ;
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(3) The creditors were paid off at a discount of 900 and other liabilities were paid in full.
(4) Dissolution expenses were 4200
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1) Realisation Account
2) Capital Account of all partners
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State any two situations when a partnership firm can be compulsorily dissolved.
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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.
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| Balance Sheets as on 31st March 2020 | ||||
| Liabilities | Amount (₹) | Assets | Amount (₹) | Amount (₹) |
| Capital: | Furniture | 14,000 | ||
| Seeta | 90,000 | Plant | 65,000 | |
| Geeta | 40,000 | Trademark | 8,000 | |
| Sundry Creditors | 35,000 | Sundry Debtors | 48,000 | 45,000 |
| Bank Loan | 15,000 | Less: R.D.D | 3,000 | |
| Stock | 30,000 | |||
| Cash in hand | 10,000 | |||
| Advertisement Suspense | 8,000 | |||
| 1,80,000 | 1,80,000 | |||
Additional Information:
- Plant and Stock taken over by Seeta ₹ 78,000, and ₹ 22,000 respectively.
- Debtors Realised 90% of the Book Value and Trademark at ₹ 5,000. and Goodwill was realised for ₹ 7,000.
- Unrecorded assets estimated ₹ 4,500 was sold for ₹ 1,500.
- ₹ 1,000 Discount were allowed by creditors while paying their claim.
- The Realisation Expenses amounted to ₹ 3,500.
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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 | ||
The firm was dissolved on the above date and the assets realised as under:
(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.
Prepare: Realisation A/c, Partner's current A/c, Partner's Capital A/c and Bank A/c.
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?
The dissolution of partnership may take place in the following ways?
Pick the odd one out.
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The court can make an order to dissolve the firm when ______.
Charu, Dhwani, Iknoor and Paavni were partners in a firm. They had entered into partnership firm last year only, through a verbal agreement. They contributed Capitals in the firm and to meet other financial requirements, few partners also provided loan to the firm. Within a year, their conflicts arisen due to certain disagreements and they decided to dissolve the firm. The firm had appointed Ms. Kavya, who is a financial advisor and legal consultant, to carry on the dissolution process. In the first instance, Ms. Kavya had transferred various assets and external liabilities to Realisation A/c. Due to her busy schedule; Ms. Kavya has delegated this assignment to you, being an intern in her firm. On the date of dissolution, you have observed the following transactions:
- Dhwani’s Loan of ₹ 50,000 to the firm was settled by paying ₹ 42,000.
- Paavni’s Loan of ₹ 40,000 was settled by giving an unrecorded asset of ₹ 45,000.
- Loan to Charu of ₹ 60,000 was settled by payment to Charu’s brother loan of the same amount.
- Iknoor’s Loan of ₹ 80,000 to the firm and she took over Machinery of ₹ 60,000 as part payment.
You are required to pass necessary entries for all the above-mentioned transactions.
Hints:
- Dr. Dhwani’s Loan A/c by ₹ 50,000; Cr. Bank A/c by ₹ 42,000 and Realisation A/c by ₹ 8,000.
- Dr. Paavni’s Loan A/c and Cr. Realisation A/c by ₹ 40,000.
- Dr. Realisation A/c and Cr. Loan to Charu A/c by ₹ 60,000.
- Dr. Iknoor Loan A/c by ₹ 80,000; Cr. Realisation A/c by ₹ 60,000 and Bank A/c by ₹ 20,000.
Mandar and Prasad are partners in a firm sharing profit & losses in the ratio of 3 : 2. The following is their balance sheet as on 31st March, 2019.
| Liabilities | Amount (₹) | Assets | Amount (₹) | |
| Capital A/c: | Building | 72,000 | ||
| Mandar | 95,000 | Plant & Machinery | 60,000 | |
| Prasad | 1,00,000 | Furniture | 10,000 | |
| Creditors | 4,000 | Debtors | 42,000 | 40,000 |
| Bills Payable | 3,000 | Less: RDD | 2,000 | |
| Bank | 20000 | |||
| 2,02,000 | 2,02,000 |
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- He paid ₹ 1,00,000 as Capital ₹ 40,000 as his shares of goodwill by RTGS.
- Plant & Machinery revalued at ₹ 48,000.
- Building is taken over by Mandar at ₹ 100,000.
- Reserve for Doubtful Debts (RDD) to be increased upto ₹ 4,000.
- The old partners decided to retain half of the amount of goodwill in the business.
- The old partners decided to sacrifice equally.
Prepare Partners' Capital Account Only and show your working clearly.
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| Balance Sheet as on 31st March, 2020 | |||||
| Liabilities | Amount (₹) |
Assets | Amount (₹) |
||
| Capital A/c: | Furniture | 2,000 | |||
| Mukund | 55,000 | 89,000 | Sundry Assets | 34,000 | |
| Sachin | 20,000 | Debtors | 48,400 | 46,000 | |
| Yuvraj | 14,000 | Less: RDD | 2,400 | ||
| Creditors | 12,000 | Stock | 15,600 | ||
| Loan | 3,000 | Cash | 6,400 | ||
| 1,04,000 | 1,04000 | ||||
It was agreed as under:
- Mukund is to take Furniture at ₹ 1,600 and the Debtors amounting to ₹ 40,000 at ₹ 34,400 only. He accepted the Creditors on ₹ 12,000 at that figure.
- Sachin is to take over all Stock at ₹ 14,000 and Sundry Assets worth ₹ 16,000 at ₹ 14,400 only.
- Yuvraj is to take over the remaining Sundry Assets at ₹ 16,000 and assume the responsibility for the discharge of the loan together will accrued interest on a loan of ₹ 60. which has not been recorded in accounts.
- The dissolution expenses were ₹ 540.
- The remaining debtors realised only ₹ 4,200.
- The necessary adjustments were made by partners to settle their accounts.
Prepare Realisation Account, Partners Capital Account, and Cash Account, after giving effect to the above adjustments.
Complete the table.
| Creditors | Bills Payable | Third-Party Liabilities |
| ₹ 16,000 | ₹ 12,000 | ? |
Pass the necessary journal entries for the following transactions on the dissolution of the partnership firm of Tina and Rina after various assets (other than cash) and external liabilities have been transferred to Realisation Account:
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- Rina agreed to pay her brother's loan of ₹ 23,000.
- Stock of ₹ 30,000 was taken over by a creditor of ₹ 40,000 in full settlement.
- Expenses of dissolution ₹ 40,000 were paid by Rina.
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- Tina's loan of ₹ 15,000 was paid through a cheque.
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| Balance Sheet as on 31st March, 2023 | |||
| Liabilities | Amount (₹) | Assets | Amount (₹) |
| Capital Accounts : | Building | 10,500 | |
| Amul | 15,000 | Plant | 13,500 |
| Sumul | 9,000 | Debtors | 21,000 |
| Current Accounts: | Stock | 7,500 | |
| Amul | 4,500 | Bank | 9,000 |
| Sumul | 3,000 | ||
| Creditors | 26,100 | ||
| Bills Payable | 3,900 | ||
| 61,500 | 61,500 | ||
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(1) Plant ₹ 12,000, Building ₹ 9,000, Stock ₹ 6,000, and Debtors ₹ 18,000.
(2) Amul agreed to pay off the Bills Payable.
(3) Creditors were paid in full.
(4) Dissolution expenses were ₹ 2,100.
Prepare: Realisation A/c, Partners' Current A/cs, Partners' Capital A/cs and Bank A/c.
Complete the following table:
| Debit side total of Realisation A/c | Credit side total of Realisation A/c | Loss on Realisation |
| ₹ 30,000 | ? | ₹ 24,000 |
| ? | ₹ 10,000 | ₹ 40,000 |
______ means winding-up of partnership firm.
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:
- Realisation Account
- Partner's Capital Account
- Bank Account.
| Nitya, Shreya and Ishita are partners in a firm. They share profits in the ratio of 5 : 3 : 2. Their fixed capitals are ₹ 1,80,000; ₹ 1,60,000 and ₹ 2,00,000 respectively. For the year ending 31st March, 2022, Nitya withdrew ₹ 7,500 at the end of every quarter. |
The average number of months for which interest on drawings will be calculated, will be:
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.
