Net Worth Certificate for Partnership Firm

Partners rarely keep the deed and the books in step. Profit shares get renegotiated in conversation, a partner draws against capital mid-year, and the ledger records something the deed never contemplated. Nobody minds until an outside reader asks for a certified figure, at which point the two have to be reconciled before anyone signs anything. That reconciliation is often the first time in years anyone has read the deed against the ledger.

There are limits worth knowing. Where deed and accounts conflict, one has to be corrected. A reconstitution during the year is reflected, so the certificate names the composition it covers. An unregistered firm can still be certified, with the status disclosed: non-registration limits what the firm and its partners can enforce in court, not what an accountant can certify. The supporting papers are listed separately, alongside the position on India Code.

Everything below is source material rather than a summary, because each figure in the statement is traced back to the record that governs it. The first list is needed on every engagement; the second applies where you hold those assets.

• Partnership deed, with every supplementary deed executed since
• Firm's PAN, and the certificate of registration where the firm is registered
• Financial statements for the latest year, audited where section 44AB applies
• Partner-wise capital and current account ledgers for the full year
• Schedule of drawings by each partner during the year
• Bank statements for every account held in the firm's name, for the full period
• Title documents for assets standing in the firm's name
• Loan statements and sanction letters for every firm borrowing
• Written confirmation of the firm's constitution as on the certificate date, signed by all partners

Where they apply:

• GST returns filed for the year, with any demand or notice outstanding

• The fee covers one certificate speaking to one date. A later date is a fresh engagement on updated records, not a re-dating of the first.
• Goods and services tax and any government charge are additional, as the footnote on the table states.
• Where records have to be reconstructed before certification can begin, that work is quoted separately and agreed before it starts.
• City pages carry the same fee as the national service. Certification does not cost more in one city than in another.
• An On quote row means the scope decides the fee. It is not a higher tier waiting to be sold; some engagements simply cannot be priced before the records are seen.

All fees listed are indicative only and do not constitute a binding offer. The final amount depends on the scope of records to be examined.

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Enter each partner's capital and current account balance with the year's drawings, and the calculator totals the firm position and shows the partner-wise split beneath it. Drawings are the adjustment most often left out, so the tool asks for them separately.

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A partnership firm has no separate legal personality, so its net worth is the partners' collective position in the firm rather than the position of a person in its own right. The deed governs how that is shared, and where the deed and the ledger disagree the disagreement has to be resolved before anything can be certified.

Two further questions follow from the Act itself: what the firm actually owns as distinct from what a partner owns, and whether the firm is registered. Both are stated on the certificate because both change what a recipient can rely on.

• Section 14, Indian Partnership Act 1932defines what belongs to the firm as distinct from a partner. An asset funded by the firm but standing in one partner's name does not pass automatically; the presumption can be displaced by what the partners actually intended.
• Sections 58, 59 and 69, Indian Partnership Act 1932govern registration and its consequences. An unregistered firm cannot enforce a contractual claim in court, which is why registration status is recorded rather than left for the reader to assume.
• Section 44AB, Income-tax Act 1961triggers a tax audit above the prescribed turnover, and where it applies the audited set is the one the figure is drawn from rather than the management accounts.
• Section 139, Income-tax Act 1961requires the firm to file its own return, which is the record the certified position is read against for consistency.
• ICAI Guidance Note on Reports or Certificates for Special Purposes (Revised 2016)governs the certificate, and requires the partners themselves to confirm in writing that nothing has been left out of what is being presented.
• ICAI Council direction on UDIN, mandatory from 1 February 2019applies to the signed certificate, letting a lender confirm the signatory on the ICAI portal before advancing against a firm with no separate legal identity.

Official sources: ICAI · ICAI UDIN Portal · Ministry of Corporate Affairs · Income Tax Department

Nothing in partnership law sets a date for this. What sets one is the facility, the bid or the reconstitution that prompted the request in the first place. A partner joining or leaving mid-year changes what can honestly be certified, so raise it before the deed is signed rather than after. Call or WhatsApp +91 94594 56700 to talk it through.

A firm's figure comes out of the deed and the ledger together, and those two disagree more often than partners expect. Read them side by side before commissioning anything. Where somebody joined or left during the year, that alone changes what can properly be certified and for which date. Send the deed with any supplementary deeds, the latest accounts and the partner-wise balances, and we will tell you what the certificate can honestly say.