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Madhya Pradesh Board · Class 12 · Accountancy

What Reconstitution of a Partnership Firm – Retirement/Death of a Partner covers in Madhya Pradesh Board Class 12 Accountancy: 4 topics, for the 2026-27.

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4 Topics · Madhya Pradesh Board Class 12 Accountancy · 2026-27

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1. Core Meaning and Accounting Areas

  • Retirement or death of a partner ends the old partnership deed and creates a new arrangement among the remaining partners.
  • The amount due to the outgoing partner or legal representatives is calculated after all adjustments.
  • The main accounting areas involved are: ascertainment of new profit sharing ratio and gaining ratio; treatment of goodwill; revaluation of assets and liabilities; adjustment of unrecorded assets and l
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2. Amount Due to Retiring or Deceased Partner

  • The sum due includes credit balance of capital account, credit balance of current account, share of goodwill, share of accumulated profits, share in gain of revaluation, share of profits up to the dat
  • Deductions include debit balance of current account, share of goodwill written off, share of accumulated losses, share of loss on revaluation, share of loss up to the date, drawings up to date, and in
  • Credit balance items increase the amount due; debit balance items reduce it.
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3. New Profit Sharing Ratio and Gaining Ratio

  • New profit sharing ratio is the ratio in which the remaining partners share future profits after retirement or death.
  • New share of a continuing partner equals his own old share plus the share acquired from the outgoing partner.
  • If continuing partners acquire the outgoing partner’s share in the old ratio, no separate calculation of new ratio is needed.
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4. Treatment of Goodwill and Hidden Goodwill

  • The outgoing partner is entitled to his or her share of goodwill because goodwill is earned by the firm with the efforts of all partners.
  • The goodwill share of the outgoing partner is compensated by the continuing partners in their gaining ratio.
  • If goodwill does not appear in the books, the gaining partners’ capital accounts are debited individually and the outgoing partner’s capital account is credited.

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Central concept: Reconstitution of a partnership firm on retirement or death of a partner

Amount due to retiring/deceased partnerNew profit sharing ratioGaining ratioGoodwill adjustmentRevaluation AccountAccumulated profits and lossesProfit & Loss Suspense AccountSettlement of amount due

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