Match Each of the Following Statements with the Numbered Terms

question 100

Multiple Choice

Match each of the following statements with the numbered terms below that provide the best definition.
-General partnership

• A)Organizational choice of many large accounting firms.
• B)Partner's percentage allocation of current operating income.
• C)Might affect any two partners' tax liabilities in different ways.
• D)Partnership in which partners are liable only for any partner's malpractice.
• E)Amount that might be reported on either form 1065, page 1 or, on Schedule K.
• F)Transfer of asset to partnership followed by immediate distribution of cash to partner.
• G)Must have at least one general and one limited partner.
• H)Long-term capital gain might be recharacterized as ordinary income.
• I)All partners are jointly and severally liable for entity debts.
• J)Theory treating the partner and partnership as separate economic units.
• K)Partner's basis in partnership interest after tax-free contribution of asset to partnership.
• L)Partnership's basis in asset after tax-free contribution of asset to partnership.
• M)One way to calculate a partner's economic interest in the partnership.
• N)Owners are members.
• O)Theory treating the partnership as a collection of taxpayers joined in an agency relationship.
• P)Participates in management.
• Q)Not liable for entity debts.
• R)No correct match provided.

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