Garvey, Lopes, and Russell Are Partners, Sharing Profits and Losses

question 54

Essay

Garvey, Lopes, and Russell are partners, sharing profits and losses in the ratio of 35, 35, and 30 percent respectively. Their partnership agreement provides that if one of them withdraws from the partnership, the assets and liabilities are to be revalued, the gain or loss allocated to the partners, and the retiring partner paid the balance of his account. Garvey withdraws from the partnership on December 31, 2013. The capital account balances before recording revaluation are Garvey, $280,000; Lopes, $230,000; and Russell, $290,000. The effect of the revaluation is to increase Merchandise Inventory by $44,000 and the Building account balance by $76,000. How much cash will be paid to Garvey?

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A metric that calculates the extent of spread or scatter among a collection of data points.

Sampling Distribution

The distribution of a statistic's probabilities, which results from analyzing a random sample.

Standard Deviation

A measure indicating the breadth of spread or variability in a series of values, showing how much the values differ from their mean.

Sample Mean

The average of a set of observations from a sample, representing an estimate of the population mean.