Q1. Two partnerships of A & B and C&D began business on Jan 1st 2017; each partnership owns one retail appliance store. The two partnerships agree to combine as of April 1st2017 to form a new partnership, ABCD Discount Stores. The two businesses agreed upon the following points:

1. Profit and loss ratios.

	A	B	C	D
Old Business Ratios	40%	60%	30%	70%
New Business Ratios	20%	30%	15%	35%

2. Capital investments. The opening capital investments for the new partnership are to be in the same ratio as the profit and loss sharing ratios for the new partnership. If necessary, certain partners may have to contribute additional cash, and others may have to withdraw cash to bring the capital investments into the proper ratio.

3. Accounts receivable. The partners agreed to set the new partnerships allowance for bad debts at 3% of the accounts receivable contributed by A&B and 12% of the accounts receivable contributed by C&D.

4. Inventory. The new partnerships opening inventory is to be valued by the FIFO method. B&M used the FIFO method to value inventory (which approximates its current value), and A&J used the LIFO method. The LIFO inventory represents 85% of its FIFO value.

5. Property and equipment. The partners agree that the buildings current value is approximately 70% of the buildings historical cost, as recorded on each partnerships books.

6. Unpaid liability. After each partnerships books were closed on 31st March 2017, an unrecorded merchandise purchase of $1,500 by A&B was discovered. The merchandise had been sold by 31st March 2017.

7. The 31st March 2017 post closing trial balances of the partnerships was as follow.

Account	A&B Balance 31st March 2017		C&D Balance 31st March 2017
Cash	25,000		22,000
Accounts Receivable	200,000		250,000
Allowance for doubtful accounts		4,000		15,000
Inventory	175,000		119,000
Building & Equipment	107,000		169,000
Accumulated Depreciation		24,000		61,000
Accounts Payable		140,000		160,000
Notes Payable		100,000		120,000
As Capital		95,000
Bs, Capital		144,000
Cs Capital				65,000
Ds Capital				139,000
Totals	507,000	507,000	560,000	560,000

Required:

1. Prepare the journal entries to record the initial capital contribution after considering the effect of this information. Use separate entries for each of the combining partnerships.

2. Prepare a schedule computing the cash contributed or withdrawn by each partner to bring the initial capital balances into the profit and los sharing ratio.

2. Debra and Merina sell electronic equipment and supplies through their partnership. They wish to expand their computer lines and decide to admit Wayne to the partnership. Debras capital is $200,000, Merinas capital is $160,000, and they share income in a ratio of 3:2, respectively.

Required:

Record Waynes admission for each of the following independent situations:

a. Wayne directly purchases half of Merinas investment in the partnership.

b. Wayne invests the amount needed to give him a one-third interest in the capital of the partnership if no goodwill or bonus is recorded.

c. Wayne invests $110,000 for a one-fourth interest if Goodwill is to be recorded.

3. Taif city levied property taxes totaling $750,000. Of this amount, $10,000 was estimated to be uncollectible. Collections during the year totaled $725,000, of which $12,000 were associated with property taxes levied in the prior year that had been declared delinquent at the end of the prior year. All of the remaining property taxes receivable at the beginning of the current year, totaling $5,000, were written off as uncollectible. The net realizable amount at 6/30/X8 ($11,000) is expected to be collected within 60 days. Pass Journal entries.