
Question 26 Chapter 4 of +2-A
26. A, B and C were partners in a firm sharing profits in the ratio of 3 : 2 : 1. Their Balance Sheet as on 31st March, 2015 was as follows:
| Liabilities | Assets | |||
| Creditors | 50,000 | Land | 50,000 | |
| Bills Payable | 20,000 | Building | 50,000 | |
| General Reserve | 30,000 | Plant | 1,00,000 | |
| Capital A/c | Stock | 40,000 | ||
| X | 1,00,000 | Debtors | 30,000 | |
| Y | 50,000 | Bank | 5,000 | |
| Z | 25,000 | 1,75,000 | ||
| 2,75,00 | 2,75,000 |
From 1st April, 2015, A, B and C decided to share profits equally. For this it was agreed that:
Revaluation A/c
| Particulars |
Amount | Particulars | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| To Building A/c | 3,000 | By Land A/c | 30,000 | |
| To Profit on Revaluation*1 | By Creditors A/c | 6,000 | ||
| X | 16,500 | |||
| Y | 11,000 | |||
| Z | 5,500 | 33,000 | 20,000 | |
| 63,000 | 36,000 | |||
Partners’ Capital Accounts
| Particulars |
A | B | C | Particulars |
A | B | C | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| To A's Capital A/c | 25,000 | By Balance B/d | 1,00,000 | 50,000 | 25,000 | |||
| By Revaluation A/c | 16,500 | 11,000 | 5,500 | |||||
| By General Reserve A/c *1 | 15,000 | 10,000 | 5,000 | |||||
| By C’s Capital A/c | 25,000 | - | - | |||||
| To Balance c/d |
1,56,500 |
71,000 |
10,500 | |||||
| 1,56,500 | 71,000 |
35,500 |
1,56,500 |
71,000 |
35,500 | |||
Balance Sheet
| Particulars |
Amount | Particulars |
Amount | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capital A/c*1 | 3,000 | Land | 50,000 | ||
| A | 1,56,500 | Add: Increase | 30,000 | 80,000 | |
| B | 71,000 | Building | 50,000 | ||
| C | 10,500 | 2,38,000 | Less: Dep. | 3,000 | 47,000 |
| General Reserve | 65,000 | Plant | 1,00,000 | ||
| Less: Written-off | 16,500 | 44,000 | Bank | 5,000 | |
| Bills Payable | 11,000 | 20,000 | Stock | 40,000 | |
| Debtors | 30,000 | ||||
| 3,02,000 | 3,02,000 | ||||
Working Note :
WN *1 Adjustment of Profit on revaluation: -
| Amount to be Credited to A's Capital | = | 33,000 | X | 3 |
| 6 | ||||
| = | 16,500 |
| Amount to be Debited to B's Capital | = | 33,000 | X | 2 |
| 6 | ||||
| = | 11,000 |
| Amount to be Debited to C's Capital | = | 33,000 | X | 1 |
| 6 | ||||
| = | 5,500 |
WN *2 Adjustment of General Reserve: -
| Amount to be Credited to X's Capital | = | 30,000 | X | 3 |
| 6 | ||||
| = | 15,000 |
| Amount to be Credited to B's Capital | = | 30,000 | X | 2 |
| 6 | ||||
| = | 10,000 |
| Amount to be Credited to C's Capital | = | 30,000 | X | 1 |
| 6 | ||||
| = | 5,000 |
| Old Ratio of X, & Y | = | 3 : 2 : 1 |
| New Ratio of X, & Y | = | 1 : 1 : 1 |
Calculate the Sacrificing or Gaining Ratio of Partners
Sacrificing or Gaining Ratio = Old Ratio - New Ratio
| A's Share Sacrificing/Gaining | = | 3 | - | 1 |
| 6 | 3 |
| = | 9 - 6 |
| 18 |
| = | 3 | (Sacrifice) |
| 18 |
| B's Share Sacrificing/Gaining | = | 2 | - | 1 |
| 6 | 3 |
| = | 6 - 6 |
| 18 | |
| = | Nil |
| C's Share Sacrificing/Gaining | = | 1 | - | 1 |
| 6 | 3 |
| = | 3 - 6 |
| 18 |
| = | - 3 | (Gain) |
| 18 |
WN *3 Adjustment of Goodwill: -
| Amount to be Credited to A's Capital | = | 1,50,000 | X | 3 |
| 18 | ||||
| = | 25,000 |
| Amount to be Debited to C's Capital | = | 1,50,000 | X | 3 |
| 18 | ||||
| = | 25,000 |
In the Books of _______________
| Date | Particulars |
L.F. | Debit | Credit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | |||||
| April 1 | C's Capital A/c | Dr | 25,000 | ||
| To A’s Capital A/c*3 | 25,000 | ||||
| (Being adjustment made for Compensation of C’s, because he is gaining) | |||||
| C's Capital A/c | Dr | 25,000 | |||
| To A’s Capital A/c*3 | 25,000 | ||||
| (Being adjustment make for the revaluation of assets and liabilities) | |||||
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