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Write the word / term / phrase, which can substitute the following statement.
Expenses incurred on dissolution of a partnership firm.
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Solution
Dissolution/Realisation Expenses
Explanation: Dissolution/Realisation Expenses are the expenses incurred on dissolution of a firm. These expenses belong to the firm and hence, they should be paid by the firm. However, sometimes these expenses are paid by the firm on behalf of a partner. In such cases, the Concerned Partner’s Capital Account is debited.
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(a) Raman, a creditor for Rs.4, 20,000 accepted building valued at Rs.8, 00,000 and paid the balance to the firm by a cheque.
(b) Rajeev, a second creditor for Rs.1, 70,000 accepted machinery valued at Rs.1, 65,000 in full settlement of his claim.
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(a) Mohan, a creditor of Rs 2,30,000 accepted debtors of Rs 2,00,000 at a discount of 10% and the balance was paid to him by cheque.
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2) Joney, a partner, agreed to bear the dissolution expenses for a commission of 750. Actual dissolution expenses 650 were paid by Joney
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| 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 | ||
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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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(iii) Interest on partners' loan @ 6% p.a.
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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.
Anil and Sunil were partners sharing profits and losses in the ratio of 3: 2. Their Balance Sheet as on 31st March, 2009.
| 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 | ||
The firm was dissolved on the above date and the assets realised as under:
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
(iii) Current Account and Capital Account of the partners.
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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 | |||
The firm was dissolved on 31st March, 2010 and the assets realised as follows:
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 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.
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.
Prepare:
1) Realisation A/c
2) Partner’s Capital A/c
3) Bank A/c
(When one partner becomes insolvent)
Rahul, Rohit and Ramesh were partners in a firm sharing profit and losses in the ratio of 2:2:1 respectively.The Balance Sheet as on 31st March, 2012 was as follows:
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:
- The Assets realised as follows:
Debtors Rs 9,000, Plant and Machinery Rs 26,000, Stock Rs 14,000 and Furniture Rs 3,000. - The Creditors were paid Rs 18,000 in full settlement and the bills payable were paid in full.
- The realisation expenses amounted to Rs 3,000.
- Ramesh become insolvent and was able to bring in only Rs 1,800 from his private estate.
Prepare:
- Realisation A/c
- Bank A/c and
- Partner’s Capital A/c
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Ram, Laxman and Bharat were partners sharing profit and losses in the ratio of 2 : 2 : 1. Following is the Balance Sheet as on 31st March, 2016 :
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
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A solvent partner having debit balance to his Capital Account does not share the deficiency of insolvent partner Capital Account.
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.
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.
Sangeeta, Anita, and Smita were in partnership sharing Profits and Losses in the ratio 2: 2: 1. Their Balance Sheet as on 31st March 2019 was as under:
| 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
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The dissolution of partnership may take place in the following ways?
Write the word/term/phrase, which can substitute each of the following statements.
"Liability likely to arise in future on happening of certain events".
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.
On dissolution of a firm, a liability taken over by a partner is credited to ______.
What Journal Entry will be passed on dissolution of partnership firm, when creditors of ₹ 40,000 accepted investments of ₹ 50,000 (Book value)?
Pick the odd one out.
On dissolution of the firm, ______ will be debited to the Realisation Account.
At the time of dissolution of a firm, Creditors are ₹ 70,000; Firm’s Capital is ₹ 1,20,000; Cash Balance is ₹ 10,000. Other assets realised ₹ 1,50,000. Gain/Loss in the realisation account will be:
A firm consisting of partners Mukund, Sachin and Yuvraj decided to dissolve the partnership They decided to take over certain assets and liabilities and continue the business separately. The Balance Sheet was as under.
| 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.
| Debit side total of Realisation A/c |
Credit side total of Realisation A/c |
Loss on Realisation |
| ₹ 20,000 | ? | ₹ 4,000 |
Pass the necessary journal entries for the following transactions on the dissolution of the partnership firm of Tanay and Mehak after various assets (other than cash) and external liabilities have been transferred to Realisation Account:
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- An unrecorded liability of ₹ 20,000 was paid by partner, Mehak, at a discount of 10%.
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- Expenses on dissolution amounted to ₹ 11,000 which were paid by Mehak.
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- Sonu took over debtors amounting to ₹ 50,000 at ₹ 40,000.
- Realisation expenses ₹ 1,800 were paid by Sonu.
- 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.
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| Balance Sheet as on 31st March, 2023 | |||||
| Liabilities | Amount (₹) | Amount (₹) | Assets | Amount (₹) | Amount (₹) |
| Capital : | Plant | 2,40,000 | |||
| Vinay | 1,80,000 | 3,60,000 | Debtors | 90,000 | |
| Premal | 1,20,000 | Stock | 1,50,000 | ||
| Monil | 60,000 | ||||
| Loan | 24,000 | ||||
| Sundry Creditors | 18,000 | ||||
| Bank Overdraft | 78,000 | ||||
| 4,80,000 | 4,80,000 | ||||
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(1) Vinay to discharge Loan and to take Debtors at book value.
(2) Plant realised ₹ 2, 70,000.
(3) Stock realised ₹1,44,000.
( 4) Creditors were paid off at a discount of ₹ 90.
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Read the following hypothetical situation and answer question on the basis of the same.
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Nitya, Shreya and Ishita are partners in a firm. They share profit in the ratio of 5 : 3 : 2. Their fixed capital 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. |
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P: Partners' loan
Q: Firm's debts
R: Balance of partners' capital
S: Surplus divided amongst the partners in their profit-sharing ratio
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Give the journal entry passed by the firm to realise the payment from the debtor.
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.
