ACCT 425 Unit 3 explores partnership accounting, contrasting it with corporate structures, detailing partnership formation, operation, and dissolution. Key topics include asset revaluation, taxation advantages, and legal aspects of partnerships, providing essential knowledge for managing and understanding partnership accounts.
Single taxation
Ease of raising capital.
Mutual agency.
Limited liability.
Difficulty of formation
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Partnerships may be formed merely by an oral agreement
Partnerships can more easily generate significant amounts of capital
Partnerships avoid the double taxation of income that is found in corporations
In some cases, losses may be used to offset gains for tax purposes
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The matching principle is not considered appropriate for partnership accounting
Revenues are recognized at a different time by a partnership than is appropriate for a corporation
Individual capital accounts replace the contributed capital and retained earnings balances found in corporate accounting
Partnerships report all assets at fair value as of the latest balance sheet date
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The purpose of the partnership and partners’ rights and responsibilities are required elements of the articles partnership
The articles of partnership are a legal covenant and must be expressed in writing to be valid
The articles of partnership are an agreement that limits partners’ liability to partnership assets
The articles of partnership are a legal covenant that may be expressed orally or in writing and forms the central governance for a partnership’s operations
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Declare personal bankruptcy.
Initiate legal proceedings against the partnership.
Contribute cash to the partnership.
Deliver a note payable to the partnership with specific payment terms.
None of the above. The partner has no legal responsibility to cover the capital deficit balance.
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The conversion of partnership assets into cash.
The allocation of the resulting gains and losses.
The allocation of the resulting gains and losses.
Any remaining unpaid debts to be settled or the distribution of any remaining assets to the partners based on capital balances
All of the above
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Partners never have a deficit balance.
The other partners must contribute personal assets to cover the deficit balance.
The partnership must sell assets in order to cover the deficit balance.
The partner with a deficit balance must contribute personal assets to cover the deficit balance.
The partner with a deficit balance contributes personal assets only if those personal assets exceed personal liabilities.
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. If a partner of a liquidating partnership is unable to pay a capital account deficit, the deficit is absorbed by the other partners in the profit and loss ratio of those partners.
Gains and losses from the sale of noncash assets are divided in the ratio of the partners' capital account balances if there is no income-sharing plan in the partnership contract.
A loan receivable from a partner is added to the partner's capital account balance in the preparation of a cash distribution plan.
Partners may not receive any cash before partnership creditors receive cash when liquidating a partnership.
E. All cash payments to partners are made using their profit and loss ratio when liquidating the partnership.
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Current cash balances.
Property owned by the partnership.
Liabilities still to be paid.
Personal assets of the partners.
Current capital balances of the partners.
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Equally
According to the profits and loss ratio
According to the final capital account balances
According to the initial investment made by each of the partners
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A guideline for the cash distributions to partners during a liquidation
A list of the procedures to be performed during a liquidation
A determination of the final cash distribution to the partners on the settlement date
A detailed list of the transactions that will transpire in the reorganization of a partnership
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GASB Statement No. 32.
GASB Statement No. 33.
GASB Statement No. 34.
GASB Statement No. 35.
GASB Statement No. 36.
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Funds used to account for the activities of a government that are carried out primarily to provide services to citizens.
Funds used to account for a government's ongoing organizations and activities that are similar to those operated by for-profit organizations
Funds used to account for monies held by the government in a trustee capacity.
Funds used to account for all financial resources except those required to be accounted for in another fund
Funds used to account for revenues that have been legally restricted as to expenditure.
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Funds used to account for the activities of a government that are carried out primarily to provide services to citizens
Funds used to account for a government's ongoing organizations and activities that are similar to those operated by for-profit organizations.
Funds used to account for monies held by the government in a trustee capacity.
Funds used to account for all financial resources except those required to be accounted for in another fund.
Funds used to account for revenues that have been legally restricted as to expenditure.
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Funds used to account for the activities of a government that are carried out primarily to provide services to citizens.
Funds used to account for a government's ongoing organizations and activities that are similar to those operated by for-profit organizations
Funds used to account for monies held by the government in a trustee capacity.
. Funds used to account for all financial resources except those required to be accounted for in another fund.
Funds used to account for revenues that have been legally restricted as to expenditure.
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General, governmental, and trust funds.
Governmental, proprietary, and fiduciary funds
Revenue, trust, and governmental funds.
Enterprise, revenue, and fiduciary funds.
Governmental, agency, and enterprise funds.
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Collected.
Realizable.
Reasonably estimable
Measurable and available.
Earned.
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Enterprise Fund.
Internal Service Fund.
Debt Service Fund.
Capital Projects Fund.
Permanent Fund.
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Special Revenue Fund
Internal Service Fund
Capital Projects Fund
Debt Service Fund
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To account for revenues legally or externally restricted as an operating expenditure
To account for asset transfers
To account for ongoing activities
To account for operations financed in whole or in part by outside user charges
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Interperiod equity
Modified accrual accounting
Consumption accounting
Account groups
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Special Revenue Funds
Capital Projects Funds
Permanent Funds
General Fund
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A donor has given the government $9,000 that must be used in a specified fashion
The government has made $9,000 in commitments in one year that will be honored in the subsequent year
Encumbrances exceeded expenditures by $9,000 during the current year
The government spent $9,000 less than was appropriated
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It is an optional addition to the comprehensive annual financial report, but the GASB encourages its inclusion
It adds a verbal explanation for the numbers and trends presented in the financial statements
It appears at the very end of a government’s comprehensive annual financial report
It replaces a portion of the fund financial statements traditionally presented by a state or local government
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It must have a separately elected governing body
It must have specifically defined geographic boundaries
It must be fiscally independent
It must have corporate powers to prove that it is legally independent
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The indirect method of reporting cash flows from operating activities is allowed although the direct method is recommended
The structure of the statement is virtually identical to that of a for-profit business
The statement is divided into four separate sections of cash flows
Amounts spent on capital assets are reported in a separate section from amounts raised to finance those capital assets.
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It resembles the financial reporting of private colleges and universities
It will continue to use its own unique style of financial reporting
It resembles the financial reporting made by a proprietary fund within the fund financial statements for a state or local government
It will soon be reported using a financial statement format unique to the needs of public colleges and universities that GASB is scheduled to create
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MD&A is required only for Proprietary Fund Financial Statements.
MD&A is required for all state and local government financial statements
MD&A is only required for comprehensive annual financial reports.
MD&A for state and local government financial statements must include an analysis of potential, untapped revenue sources.
MD&A is an optional inclusion for state and local government financial statements.
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It has an appointed board of directors.
It is fiscally dependent.
It is a local government
It has a separately elected governing body.
It must prepare financial statements
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Proprietary fund types.
Governmental fund types.
Fund types.
Fiduciary fund types.
A statement of cash flows is not required for any fund types
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A brief discussion of the basic financial statements
Total assets.
Total liabilities.
Net assets.
An organization chart of government officials.
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