Exam 16: Reporting and Analyzing Partnerships

A partnership that has two classes of partners, general and limited, where the limited partners have no personal liability beyond the amounts they invest in the partnership, and no active role in the partnership, except as specified in the partnership agreement is a:

Christie and Jergens formed a partnership with capital contributions of $300,000 and $400,000, respectively. Their partnership agreement calls for Christie to receive a $60,000 per year salary. Also, each partner is to receive an interest allowance equal to 10% of a partner's beginning capital investments. The remaining income or loss is to be divided equally. If the net income for the current year is $135,000, then Christie and Jergens's respective shares are:

A ________________ is an unincorporated association of two or more people to pursue a business for profit as co-owners.

When a partner is added to a partnership:

Glade, Marker, and Walters are partners with beginning-year capital balances of $250,000, $150,000, and $100,000, respectively. Partnership net income for the year is $192,000. Make the necessary journal entry to close Income Summary to the capital accounts if partners agree to divide income based on their beginning-year capital balances.

Bannister invested $110,000 and Wilder invested $99,000 in a new partnership. Their partnership agreement called for Wilder to receive a $70,000 annual salary allowance. They also agreed to an annual interest allowance of 5% on the partners' beginning-year capital balance, with the balance of income or loss to be divided equally. Under this agreement, what are the income or loss shares of the partners if the annual partnership income is $82,000?

Reno contributed $104,000 in cash plus equipment valued at $27,000 to the RD Partnership. The journal entry to record the transaction for the partnership is:

When a partner is unable to pay a capital deficiency:

If a partner withdraws from a partnership and the recorded value of his or her equity is overstated, then a bonus goes to _________________________; if the recorded value of the withdrawing partner's equity is understated, then a bonus goes to ____________________.

Bloom and Plant organize a partnership on January 1. Bloom's initial investment consists of $800 cash, $1,700 equipment and a $500 note payable reflecting a bank loan for the new business. Plant's initial investment is cash of $2,000. These amounts are the values agreed on by both partners. The journal entry to record Plant's investment is:

On May 1, Gosworth and Jordan formed a partnership. Gosworth contributed cash of $100,000 and equipment valued at $142,000. Jordan contributed land valued at $130,000 and a building valued at $250,000. The partnership also assumed responsibility for Jordan's $120,000 long-term note payable associated with the land and building. The partners agreed to share income as follows: Gosworth is to receive a salary allowance of $38,000, both are to receive an annual interest allowance of 8% of their beginning-year capital investments, and any remaining income or loss is to be shared equally. During the year, Gosworth withdrew $40,000 and Jordan withdrew $42,000 cash. After the adjusting and closing entries are made to the revenue and expense accounts at the end of the year, the Income Summary account had a credit balance of $140,000. Prepare the journal entries to record (a) the partners' initial capital investments, (b) their cash withdrawals, and (c) closing of both the Withdrawals and Income Summary accounts.

The Redtail Partnership agrees to dissolve. The remaining cash balance after liquidating partnership assets and liabilities is $70,000. The final capital account balances are: Paulson, $35,000; Gray, $25,000; and Chang, $10,000. Prepare the journal entry to distribute the remaining cash to the partners.

The following information is available regarding Grace Smit's capital account in Enterprise Consulting Group, a general partnership, for a recent year: What is Smit's partner return on equity during the year in question?

Masters, Hardy, and Rowen are dissolving their partnership. Their partnership agreement allocates income and losses equally among the partners. The current period's ending capital account balances are Masters, $15,000; Hardy, $15,000; Rowen, $30,000. After all the assets are sold and liabilities are paid, but before any contributions to cover any deficiencies, there is $54,000 in cash to be distributed. The general journal entry to record the final distribution would be:

Barber and Atkins are partners in an accounting firm and share net income and loss equally. Barber's beginning partnership capital balance for the current year is $285,000, and Atkins' beginning partnership capital balance for the current year is $370,000. The partnership had net income of $250,000 for the year. Barber withdrew $90,000 during the year and Atkins withdrew $100,000. What is Barber's return on equity?

Palmer withdraws from the FAP Partnership. The remaining partners agree to buy out her share for her capital balance of $65,000. Prepare the journal entry to record the withdrawal from the partnership.

Brown invested $200,000 and Freeman invested $150,000 in a partnership. They agreed to an interest allowance on the partners' beginning-year capital investments at 10%, with the balance to be shared equally. Under this agreement, the shares of the partners when the partnership earns $205,000 in income are:

How are partners' investments in a partnership recorded?

Harvey and Quick have decided to form a partnership. Harvey is going to contribute a depreciable asset to the partnership as his equity contribution to the partnership. The following information regarding the asset to be contributed by Harvey is available: Based on this information, Harvey's beginning equity balance in the partnership will be:

The partnership agreement for Wilson, Pickett & Nelson, a general partnership, provided that profits be shared between the partners in the ratio of their financial contributions to the partnership. Wilson contributed $100,000, Pickett contributed $50,000 and Nelson contributed $50,000. In the partnership's first year of operation, it incurred a loss of $110,000. What amount of the partnership's loss, rounded to the nearest dollar, should be absorbed by Nelson?