The partnership agreement of Jones, King, and Lane provides for the annual allocation of the businesss profit

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The partnership agreement of Jones, King, and Lane provides for the annual allocation of the business’s profit or loss in the following sequence:

• Jones, the managing partner, receives a bonus equal to 20 percent of the business’s profit.

• Each partner receives 15 percent interest on average capital investment.

• Any residual profit or loss is divided equally.

The average capital investments for 2011 were as follows:

Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $100,000

King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200,000

Lane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300,000

Purkerson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $60,000

Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,000

Traynor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,000

How much of the $90,000 partnership profit for 2011 should be assigned to each partner?

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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Advanced Accounting

ISBN: 978-0077431808

10th edition

Authors: Joe Hoyle, Thomas Schaefer, Timothy Doupnik

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