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Accounting Policies: Business (Policies)
3 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2012
Business:  
Business

1. Business

 

Commonwealth Income & Growth Fund V (the “Partnership”) is a limited partnership organized in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in May 2003. The Partnership offered for sale up to 1,250,000  units of the limited partnership at the purchase price of $20 per unit (the “offering”). The Partnership reached the minimum amount in escrow and commenced operations on March 14, 2005. As of February 24, 2006, the Partnership was fully subscribed.

The Partnership used the proceeds of the offering to acquire, own and lease various types of information technology, medical technology, telecommunications technology, inventory management equipment and other similar capital equipment, which is leased primarily to U.S. corporations and institutions.

 

Commonwealth Capital Corp. (“CCC”), on behalf of the Partnership and other affiliated partnerships, acquires equipment subject to associated debt obligations and lease agreements and allocate a participation in the cost, debt and lease revenue to the various partnerships that it manages based on certain risk factors.

 

The Partnership’s General Partner is Commonwealth Income & Growth Fund, Inc. (the “General Partner”), a Pennsylvania corporation which is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of CCC. Approximately ten years after the commencement of operations, the Partnership intends to sell or otherwise dispose of all of its equipment, make final distributions to partners, and to dissolve. Unless sooner terminated, the Partnership will continue until February 4, 2017.

 

As a result of litigation with the City of Tempe, the Partnership has suspended distributions, beginning with the second quarter of 2011 and continuing through third quarter 2012.

Although the litigation was settled in March 2012, the General Partner has not recommenced distributions and will continue to reassess the

funding of limited partner distributions. If available cash flow or net disposition proceeds are insufficient to cover the Partnership expenses and liabilities on a short or

long term basis, the Partnership may attempt to obtain additional funds by refinancing equipment, or by borrowing within its permissible limits.

 

The General Partner and CCC will determine if related party payables owed to them by the Partnership may be deferred (if deemed necessary) in an effort to increase the Partnership’s cash flow.