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Partner's Capital Accounts

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What type of account is a partners loan account ? How do the golden rules of accounting apply on them ?

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Partners Loan account is a Personal Account. The golden rule for accounting for personnel account is ‘Debit the receiver, Credit the giver’. Therefore, whenever a loan is obtained from a partner, we credit the partner’s loan account as partner is the giver of the loan.

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