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Which of the following statements are correct?

(A) When a new partner is admitted into partnership firm, sacrificing ratio is used to distribute new partner's share of goodwill.

(B) Hidden goodwill is the excess of Total Capital of the new firm (based on new partner's capital) over the actual combined capital of all the partners.

(C) When a new partner is admitted into partnership firm, the new partner compensates the old partners for their loss of share in the divisible profits of the firm for which he brings in an additional amount that is called as Premium for Goodwill.

(D) Employees' Provident Fund should be distributed among the old partners at the time of admission of a new partner.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 4

(A) is correct as goodwill compensates only the sacrificing partners.

(B) correctly defines hidden goodwill.

(C) correctly describes premium for goodwill.

(D) is incorrect. Employees' Provident Fund is a statutory liability owed to employees, not an accumulated profit, so it is never distributed among partners.

Hence (A), (B) and (C) only.

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