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State the difference between dissolution of partnership and dissolution of partnership firm.
Solution
| Basis of Difference | Dissolution of Partnership | Dissolution of Partnership firm |
| Meaning | It means change in the partnership deed (or the agreement) among the partners. | It means that the business is wound up and the firm is dissolved. |
| Discontinuation | Business is not discontinued. | Business is discontinued, as the firm is dissolved. |
| Closure of Books of Accounts | Books of accounts are not closed, as there is only change in the existing agreement between the partners. | Books of accounts are closed, as the business is discontinued. |
| Assets and Liabilities | In this case, the assets and liabilities are revalued. | In this case, all the assets are sold off in order to pay the liabilities of the business. |
| Role of Court | There is no intervention by the court. | Dissolution of a partnership firm may be done with the consent of the court. |
| Nature | It is voluntary in nature. | It may be voluntary (as per the discretion of the partners) or compulsory (as per the order of the court). |
| Effect | It may or may not involve dissolution of the firm. | It necessarily involves dissolution of both the partnership as well as of the partnership firm. |
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Mr. Aaba and Mr. Baba are equal partners whose Balance Sheet as on 31 st March, 2012 was as under:
Balance Sheet as on
31st March, 2012
| Liabilities | Amount(Rs.) | Assets | Amount(Rs.) |
| Sundry Creditors | 16000 | Cash in hand | 500 |
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Capital A/c Aaba Baba |
2000 2000 |
Stock | 4500 |
| Debtors | 4000 | ||
| Plant and machinery | 5000 | ||
| Furniture | 2000 | ||
| Land and Building | 4000 | ||
| 20000 | 20000 |
Due to weak financial position of the partners the firm is dissolved.
Aaba and Baba are not able to contribute anything from their private estate, hence they are declared insolvent.
The assets are realised as follows :-
Stock Rs. 3,000, Plant and Machinery Rs. 3,000, Furniture Rs. 1,000, Land and Building Rs. 2,000 and Debtors Rs. 1,000 only.
Realisation expenses amounted to Rs. 500.
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1) Expenses of dissolution were Rs 9,000.
2) Expenses of dissolution Rs 3,400 were paid by a partner, Vishal
3) Shiv, a partner, agreed to do the work for dissolution for a commission of Rs 4,500. He also agreed to bear the dissolution expenses. Actual dissolution expenses Rs 3,900 were paid from the firm's bank account.
4) Naveen, a partner, agreed to look after the dissolution work for which he was allowed a remuneration of Rs 3,000. Naveen also agreed to bear the dissolution expenses. Actual expenses on dissolution Rs 2,700 were paid by Naveen.
5) Vivek, a partner, was appointed to look after the dissolution work for a remuneration of Rs 7,000. He agreed to bear the dissolution expenses. Actual dissolution expenses Rs 6,500 were paid by Rishi, another partner, on behalf of Vivek.
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| Liabilities | Rs | Assets | Rs |
|
Creditors Investment Fluctuation Fund Capitals Prachi Ritika |
2,00,000 30,000 30,000 40,000 |
Furniture Stock Investments Cash Ishita's Capital
|
37,000 5,500 15,000 9,000 18,000
|
| 84,500 | 84,500 |
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The assets realised as follows:
| 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 |
| Capital Accounts: | Furniture | 25000 | |
| Devendra 1,15,000 | Motor Car | 37500 | |
| Ganesh 75,000 | Cash in hand | 2500 | |
| 227500 | 227500 | ||
(1) Debtors Rs. 45,000, stock Rs. 1,00,000 and goodwill Rs. 12,500
(2) The motor car was taken over by Devendra for Rs. 35,000 and furniture by Ganesh for Rs. 30,000.
(3) The creditors were paid Rs. 11,250 in full settlement.
(4) The realisation expenses were Rs. 5,000.
Pass necessary journal entries in the books of the firm.
| 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 | ||
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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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On application Rs 20
On allotment Rs 30
On first call Rs 30
On second call Rs 20
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Record the above transactions in the books of Aniket Ltd
Answer in one sentence only.
When is Realisation Account opened?
Write the word / term / phrase, which can substitute the following statements.
Credit balance in Realisation Account.
State whether the following statement is True or False.
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State whether the following statement is True or False.
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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 | |||
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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 |
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(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
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(2) Partner's Capital Account
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Second call and
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| 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 | ||
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Pass necessary entries in the books of ‘Janki Stores.’
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| Balance Sheets as on 31st March 2020 | ||||
| Liabilities | Amount ₹ | Assets | 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 | |
| Bank Loan | 15,000 | Less - R. D. D | 3,000 | 45,000 |
| Stock | 30,000 | |||
| Cash in hand | 10,000 | |||
| Advertisement Suspense | 8,000 | |||
| 1,80,000 | 1,80,000 | |||
Additional Information :
1. Plant and Stock taken over by Seeta ₹ 78,000, and ₹ 22,000 respectively
2. Debtors Realised 90% of the Book Value and Trademark at ₹ 5,000. and Goodwill was realised for ₹ 7,000.
3. Unrecorded assets estimated ₹4,500 was sold for ₹1,500.
4. ₹ 1,000 Discount were allowed by creditors while paying their claim.
5. The Realisation Expenses amounted to ₹ 3,500
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| 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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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.
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Pick the odd one out.
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The court can make an order to dissolve the firm when ______.
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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:
- Asha agreed to take over the Building at ₹ 1,23,600
- Usha took over Goodwill Stock and Debtors at book value and agreed to pay Creditors and Bills payable.
- Motor car and Machinery realised at ₹ 1,51,080 and ₹ 31,680 respectively.
- Investment were taken by Nisha at an agreed value of ₹ 55,440.
- Realisation Expenses amounted to ₹ 6,800.
Prepare:
- Realisation Account
- Partners' Capital Account
- Bank Account
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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 |
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 |
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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 |
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______ means winding-up of partnership firm.
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| Balance Sheet of Mita and Sita as on 31st March, 2022 |
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| 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 | ||||
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- 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.
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| 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.
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. |
The partnership deed provide that interest on capital will be allowed @10% p.a. The amount of interest on Ishita's capital will be:
