Advanced Financial Accounting
Advanced Financial Accounting
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ISBN: 9781259916977
Author: Christensen, Theodore E., COTTRELL, David M., Budd, Cassy
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Education,
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Installment liquidation: It typically requires several months to complete liquidation, it includes installment, payments to partners during liquidation period because they require funds for the personal purposes. Most liquidations take place over an extended period in order to obtain the large possible amount from the realization of the assets. Some partnerships using installment liquidations prepare a plan of liquidation and dissolution prior to beginning the liquidation.

Installment liquidations involve distributing cash to partners before complete liquidation of assets occurs. To ensure fairness in making cash distributions a schedule of safe payments to partners and the cash distribution plan is followed.

To choose:Correct answer and show how final cash distribution to the partners is done.

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no need to explain. What is a cash priority program?  a. A guideline for the cash distributions made to partners during a liquidation b. A list of the rules to be performed during a partnership dissolution c. A list of the transactions that will transpire in the reorganization of a partnership d. None of the above
In accounting for the lump-sum liquidation of a partnership, cash payments to partners after all non-partner creditors’ claims have been satisfied, but before the final cash distribution should be according to: a. Safe payment computations. b. The final balances in partner capital accounts. c. The partners’ relative profit and loss sharing ratio. d.The partners’ relative share of the gain or loss on liquidation.
Choose the correct. How does partnership accounting differ from corporate accounting?a. The matching principle is not considered appropriate for partnership accounting.b. Revenues are recognized at a different time by a partnership than is appropriate for a corporation.c. Individual capital accounts replace the contributed capital and retained earnings balances found in corporate accounting.d. Partnerships report all assets at fair value as of the latest balance sheet date.

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