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Rohan, Bharti and Leela are partners. On the retirement of Rohan, the goodwill already appears in the balance sheet at . This existing goodwill will be written-off:

  1. A
    By debiting all partners' capital accounts in their old profit sharing ratio.
  2. B
    By debiting remaining partners' capital accounts in their new profit sharing ratio.
  3. C
    By debiting retiring partners' capital accounts from his share of goodwill.
  4. D
    By debiting the retiring partners' current account from his share of goodwill.

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Any goodwill already showing in the books/balance sheet at the time of reconstitution (retirement, admission, etc.) must be completely written off by debiting all the old partners' capital accounts in their old profit-sharing ratio.

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Rohan, Bharti and Leela are partners. On the retirement of Rohan, the goodwill already appears in the balance sheet at . This existing goodwill will be written-off:
A
By debiting all partners' capital accounts in their old profit sharing ratio.
B
By debiting remaining partners' capital accounts in their new profit sharing ratio.
C
By debiting retiring partners' capital accounts from his share of goodwill.
D
By debiting the retiring partners' current account from his share of goodwill.

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