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Afar 02 Partnership Operations
Afar 02 Partnership Operations
Profit division:
1. Profit sharing agreement
2. Original capital
Loss division:
1. Loss sharing agreement
2. How profit is divided
Arbitrary allocation:
The partners may provide for the following methods of profit or loss distribution:
1. Salary – compensation for services; provided for regardless of the existence of profit because
the provision for services by a partner is independent from earning a profit.
2. Interest – compensation for use of partner’s capital; provided for regardless of the existence
of profit because the of the partner’s capital is independent from earning a profit.
3. Bonus – compensation for good performance; provided only when the partnership has profit
because the use of the partner’s capital is independent from earning a profit.
Bonus computation:
Assume the following:
Tax rate (T) = 30%
Bonus rate (B) = 10%
Tax on bonus (tb) = 3% (30% x 10%)
SOURCE:
Prof. Mark Alyson B. Ngina, CPA, CMA
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