Partnership accounts
What partnership accounts means
Profit sharing, capital and current accounts in partnerships.
Worked example
One question from this skill's own question bank, shown with its full working.
In the absence of an agreement, partners share profits and losses…
- by capital ratio
- equally
- by age
- by the senior partner only
Working: Under the default rule, partners share profits and losses equally.
Curriculum and exam alignment
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Related skills
Other Partnership & Company Accounts skills in Financial Accounting, at the same point in the course.
Other Financial Accounting topics
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Exams that assess partnership accounts
Senior High work on this skill feeds directly into these exam papers. Each page lists the Financial Accounting topics that appear on it.
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Practise partnership accounts
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