IHTM25113 - Valuing the partnership interest: Adjusting the deceased's capital account


Once all adjustments have been agreed, the total increase/ decrease is attributed to the partners' capital accounts in the same proportion as that in which they share profits and losses.

Example


Example (i)     

A SAMPLE PARTNERSHIP BALANCE SHEET

P W Johnson and Sons

Balance Sheet as at 31 March 1990 (1)

Liabilities £ Assets£
Sundry creditors

Overdraft

Mortgage
 6,428

1,325

2,452
(2)
(3)
Moreton Farm

Improvements
15,000

6,183
P W Johnson (deceased)

Capital Account at 13/3/89

Add share profit

Less drawings

Less Income Tax (6)

J P Johnson

A T Johnson


+
_
_
27,892

7,952

6,895

2,100

26,849

19,764

25,107

81,925



(4)


(5)
Plant and Machinery

Loose tools/implements
Vehicles

Dairy herd

Debtors and repayments

Cash at bank

Lloyds Bank (Jersey) deposit
7,623

3,416

2,310

12,650

2,389

7,352

25,000

81,925
(1) Make sure this is the date of death or very close.
(2) Refer to Valuation Office (VO) ( IHTM23002) with details of any agricultural relief due. You will also need details of the milk quota.
(3) Where this item appears, it will be part of the `book value' of the farm which needs adjusting when VO report received - see (ii) below.
(4) Refer to Shares and Assets Valuation (SAV) (Livestock).
(5) At least part of this may be an excepted asset ( IHTM25351).
(6) Income tax is a personal liability and should be added back, but allowed as a deduction against non-IOP.( IHTM25112)


Example (ii)

ADJUSTING THE DECEASED'S CAPITAL ACCOUNT

P W Johnson and his two sons share profits equally. The following adjustments need to be made:

1. DV reports an agreed value of £45,000 for Moreton Farm as partnership property (an increase of £23,817 over the combined book value of £15,000 and £6,183).
2. Dairy herd agreed at £14,500, an increase of £1,850.
3. The final figure for the overdraft is £2,895, an increase of £1,570 in debts.

The total increase in the assets of the business is:

£23,817 + £1,850 _ £1,570 = £24,097 1/3 = + £ 8,032

Deceased's Capital Account as Balance Sheet £26,849

Revised Capital Account £34,881

Add back Income Tax (agreed as personal + £ 2,100

liability)

Final revised Capital Account £36,981


Example (ii)

ADJUSTING THE DECEASED'S CAPITAL ACCOUNT

P W Johnson and his two sons share profits equally. The following adjustments need to be made:

1. DV reports an agreed value of £45,000 for Moreton Farm as partnership property (an increase of £23,817 over the combined book value of £15,000 and £6,183).
2. Dairy herd agreed at £14,500, an increase of £1,850.
3. The final figure for the overdraft is £2,895, an increase of £1,570 in debts.

The total increase in the assets of the business is:

£23,817 + £1,850 _ £1,570 = £24,097 1/3 = + £ 8,032

Deceased's Capital Account as Balance Sheet £26,849

Revised Capital Account £34,881

Add back Income Tax (agreed as personal liability) + £ 2,100

Final revised Capital Account £36,981