Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Accountancy

Chapter

Reconstitution of Partnership Firm: Retirement and Death

Question:

Assertion: When a partner retires, all the unrecorded assets and liabilities, the increase or decrease in the value of assets and liabilities are done with the help of a revaluation account.

Reasoning: A Revaluation Account is prepared in order to ascertain net gain (loss) on revaluation of assets or reassessment of liabilities and bringing unrecorded items into firm.

Options:

Both Assertion (A) and reasoning (R) are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.

Both Assertion (A) and reasoning (R) are correct and but R is not the correct explanation of A.

Assertion (A) is true but Reasoning (R) is not correct.

Assertion (A) is not true but Reasoning (R) is correct.

Correct Answer:

Both Assertion (A) and reasoning (R) are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.

Explanation:

Both Assertion (A) and reasoning (R) are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.
At the time of retirement, all the unrecorded assets and liabilities, the increase or decrease in the value of assets and liabilities are treated with the help of a revaluation account and the profit and loss on this account is shared by all the partners including the deceased partner.