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IA - 2 Provision, Contingent Liability: Presented By: Renato O. Daquioag CPA, MBA, CFC
IA - 2 Provision, Contingent Liability: Presented By: Renato O. Daquioag CPA, MBA, CFC
Liability
Technical Knowledge
Rule of thumb,
Best estimate is the amount that the entity would rationally pay to settle
the obligation at the end of reporting period or to transfer it to a third party
at that time.
1. Warranties
2. Environmental Contamination
3. Decommissioning or abandonment costs
4. Court Case
5. Gauranteee
Restructuring
1. The entity has a detailed formal plan for the restructuring which
includes the following:
a. The business being restructured.
b. The principal location affected
c. The location, function and approximate number of employees
who will be compensated for terminating their employment
d. Date when the plan will be implemented
e. The expenditures that will be undertaken.
2. The entity has raised valid expectation in the minds of those affected
that the entity will carry out the restructuring by starting to implement
the plan and announcing the main features to those affected by it.
Provision for restructuring
PAS 37, paragraph 81, specifically excludes the following expenditures
from the restructuring provision:
A Contingent asset is a possible assets that arise from past event and
whose existence will be confirmed only by the occurrence or
nonoccurrence of one or more uncertain future events not wholly within
the control of the entity.