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A corporation distributes a portion of income earned to shareholders in the form of dividends. In a proprietorship, the owner distributes a portion of the business’s income in the form of withdrawals and these are recorded as debits to the Proprietor’s Withdrawals account. At year-end, this account is closed to Proprietor’s Capital account. A typical journal entry to record a cash withdrawal would be:
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