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Accounting For Special Transactions

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ACCOUNTING FOR SPECIAL

TRANSACTIONS
(Advanced Accounting 1)

LECTURE AID

2018

ZEUS VERNON B. MILLAN


Chapter 1 Partnership Formation
Learning Objectives

• Differentiate between the accounting for


partnerships, sole proprietorships, and
corporations.
• State the valuation of contributions of
partners.
• Account for the initial investments of the
partners to the partnership.
• State the peculiar accounts used in a
partnership and identify the transactions
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that affect these accounts.TRANSACTIONS (Advanced
Accounting 1) - (by: MILLAN)
Partnership

• A partnership is an unincorporated association of two or


more individuals to carry on, as co-owners, a business,
with the intention of dividing the profits among
themselves.

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Characteristics of a partnership

1. Ease of formation 
2. Separate legal personality  
3. Mutual agency
4. Co-ownership of property
5. Co-ownership of profits
6. Limited life
7. Transfer of ownership
8. Unlimited liability (this is applicable to a general
partnership)
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Accounting for partnerships

• The following are the major considerations in the


accounting for the equity of a partnership:
1. Formation – accounting for initial investments to the
partnership
2. Operation – division of profits or losses
3. Dissolution – admission of a new partner and withdrawal,
retirement or death of a partner
4. Liquidation – winding-up of affairs

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Valuation of contributions of partners

• All assets contributed to (and related liabilities


assumed by) the partnership shall be measured
at fair value.

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Partners’ ledger accounts

1. Capital accounts
2. Drawing accounts
3. Receivable from/ Payable to a partner

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Bonus on initial investments

• A bonus exists when the capital account of a partner is


credited for an amount greater than or less than the fair
value of his contributions.
• The bonus is treated as adjustment to the capital
accounts of the other partners.

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APPLICATION OF CONCEPTS
 

PROBLEM 2: FOR CLASSROOM DISCUSSION

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OPEN FORUM
QUESTIONS????
REACTIONS!!!!!

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