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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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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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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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Chapter 6: Dissolution of Partnership Firm - Exercise 6.1 (Objective Questions) [Page 242]

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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
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Chandan 150000 Cash in hand 5000
  455000   455000

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Sunil 30,000 Debtors 70,000
Current Account:   Plant 45,000
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Creditors 87,000    
Bills payable 13,000    
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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

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          Balance Sheet as on 31st December, 2011

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Capital Accounts:   Building 73,900
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Debtors

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Bank Loan 11,500 Ashwin’s Capital 15,000
  207000   207000

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d) A Customer who owes Rs 14,400 became insolvent and nothing could be recovered from his private estate.

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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

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      Balance Sheet as on 31st December, 2011

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Capital Accounts   Sadanand’s Capital A/c 2000
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12700
Parvati’s Loan 10000

Debtors

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Sundry Creditors 30000

Bank

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  50000   50000

Shiv, Sadashiv and Sadanand were declared bankrupt and hence the firm was dissolved as on that date:

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     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-

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You are required to close the books of the firm.


Distinguish between firm’s debts and partner’s private debts.


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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.


All activities of partnership firm cease on _________ of firm.


Give the word/term/phrase which can substitute the following statement.

An account opened to find out the Profit or Loss on realisation of Assets and settlement of Liabilities.


Write the word/phrase/term/ which can substitute the following statement.

Expenses incurred on dissolution of firm.


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

At the time of the dissolution of partnership, all assets should be transferred to Realisation 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.


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.


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.


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.


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The dissolution of partnership may take place in the following ways?


A firm is dissolved with the consent of all the partners or in accordance with a contract between the partners is known as ______


Name the account opened to find out the Profit or Loss on Sale of Assets and Settlement of Liabilities?


A partnership firm is compulsorily dissolved:


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


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Pick the odd one out.


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Balance Sheet as on 31st March, 2019
Liabilities Amount (₹) Assets Amount (₹)
Creditors 28,800 Building 1,02,000
Bills Payable 21,600 Machinery 73,000
Capitol Accounts:   Motor Car 1,67,600
Asha 2,27,160 Goodwill 45,600
Usha 1,44,000 Investment 62,400
Nisha 1,08,000 Debtors 30,600
    Stock 45,000
    Bank 3,360
  5,29,560   5,29,560

The firm was dissolved on the above date and the assets realised as under:

  1. Asha agreed to take over the Building at ₹ 1,23,600
  2. Usha took over Goodwill Stock and Debtors at book value and agreed to pay Creditors and Bills payable.
  3. Motor car and Machinery realised at ₹ 1,51,080 and ₹ 31,680 respectively.
  4. Investment were taken by Nisha at an agreed value of ₹ 55,440.
  5. Realisation Expenses amounted to ₹ 6,800.

Prepare:

  1. Realisation Account
  2. Partners' Capital Account
  3. Bank Account

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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:

  1. Machinery realised 60% of its book value.
  2. 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.
  3. Hema took stock at an agreed value of ₹ 50,000.
  4. Creditors and Bills payable were paid at 10% discount.
  5. Limsy became insolvent and nothing was recovered from her estate.

Prepare:

  1. Realisation Account
  2. Partners’ Capital Account
  3. Bank Account

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  2. Rina agreed to pay her brother's loan of ₹ 23,000.
  3. Stock of ₹ 30,000 was taken over by a creditor of ₹  40,000 in full settlement.
  4. Expenses of dissolution ₹  40,000 were paid by Rina. 
  5. Creditors were paid ₹ 18,800 in full settlement of their account of ₹  20,000.
  6. Tina's loan of ₹  15,000 was paid through a cheque.

Pass necessary Journal Entries for the following transactions on the dissolution of a partnership firm of Mita and Sonu on 31st March, 2022 after the various assets other than cash and third party liabilities have been transferred to the Realisation Account.

  1. Creditors of ₹ 90,000 took over Land and Building of ₹ 2,00,000 in full settlement of their claim.
  2. Sonu took over debtors amounting to ₹ 50,000 at ₹ 40,000.
  3. Realisation expenses ₹ 1,800 were paid by Sonu.
  4. A machine which was not recorded in the books was taken over by Mita at ₹ 11,000 while its expected market value was ₹ 15,000.
  5.  Sortu agreed to pay off his wife's loan of ₹ 20,000.
  6. Profit on dissolution amounted at ₹ 50,000.

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.

You are required to prepare Realisation A/c, Cash A/c and Partner's Capital A/cs.


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