K. Meissner, S. Cohen, and E. Hughes are forming a partnership. Meissner is transferring $50,000 of personal

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K. Meissner, S. Cohen, and E. Hughes are forming a partnership. Meissner is transferring $50,000 of personal cash to the partnership. Cohen owns land worth $15,000 and a small building worth $80,000, which she transfers to the partnership. Hughes transfers to the partnership cash of $9,000, accounts receivable of $32,000 and equipment worth $19,000. The partnership expects to collect $29,000 of the accounts receivable.

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(a) Prepare the journal entries to record each of the partners’ investments.

(b) What amount would be reported as total owners’ equity immediately after the investments?


Accounts Receivable
Accounts receivables are debts owed to your company, usually from sales on credit. Accounts receivable is business asset, the sum of the money owed to you by customers who haven’t paid.The standard procedure in business-to-business sales is that...
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 Principles

ISBN: 978-0470533475

9th Edition

Authors: Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel, Donald E. Kieso

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