Allyn Seth, Jim Kerr, and Laura Driver arranged to import and sell orchid corsages for a university

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Allyn Seth, Jim Kerr, and Laura Driver arranged to import and sell orchid corsages for a university dance. They agreed to share equally the net income or net loss of the venture.

Seth and Kerr advanced $225 and $150 of their own respective funds to pay for advertising and other expenses. After collecting for all sales and paying creditors, the partnership has $975 in cash.

a. How should the money be distributed?

b. Assuming that the partnership has only $255 instead of $975, do any of the three partners have a capital deficiency? If so, how much?


Partnership
A legal form of business operation between two or more individuals who share management and profits. A Written agreement between two or more individuals who join as partners to form and carry on a for-profit business. Among other things, it states...
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Accounting

ISBN: 978-0324401844

22nd Edition

Authors: Carl S. Warren, James M. Reeve, Jonathan E. Duchac

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