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Cambridge AS & A Level Accounting

3.1.2Partnerships

Partnerships in Cambridge AS & A Level Accounting: what the syllabus expects you to know, the learning objectives and how to practise.
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Learning objectives

What the syllabus expects you to be able to do.

  1. 3.1.2.1Explain goodwill and distinguish purchased from inherent goodwill.
  2. 3.1.2.2Prepare partners' capital and current accounts to record goodwill and revaluation on a change in the profit-sharing ratio, the introduction of a partner, the retirement of a partner and dissolution.
  3. 3.1.2.3Prepare the appropriation account, statement of profit or loss and statement of financial position including changes part-way through a year, and realisation and revaluation accounts.

Lessons

  • Change of ratio and admission of a new partner

    65 min

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  • Dissolution of a partnership: the realisation account

    50 min

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  • Goodwill in partnership accounts

    55 min

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  • Partnership changes part-way through the accounting year

    55 min

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  • Retirement or death of a partner

    65 min

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  • Revaluation of assets on a change in partnership

    50 min

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Partnerships: sample question

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At what amount are the non-cash assets of a partnership transferred to the realisation account?

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