EZ Manufacturing Company is a partnership among Yolanda Gonzales, Willie Todd and Linda Yeager. The partnership contract states that partnership profits will be split equally among the three partners. During the current year Gonzales withdrew $25,000, Todd withdrew $23,000 and Yaeger withdrew $30,000. Net Income of EZ Manufacturing Company amounted to $180,000.
A. Calculate each partner's share of net income for the period.
B. Describe the effects, if any, that partnership operations would have on the individual tax returns of the partners.
C. Prepare a statement of partner's equity for the year. Assume that partners' capital accounts had beginning balances of $50,000, $60,000 and $40,000 respectively for Gonzales, Todd & Yeager.