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- April 4, 2018 at 5:48 pm #445015
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neglience claim year 2017- 0 year 2016- 200
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(iii) during the year the company made an out of court settlement of a neglience claim which was sued by previous employee. The case has been progressed for three years and the company had make provisions in each of the three previous years.Prepare cash flow for year ended 31 december 2017
May I knw the neglience claim should be present in the operating activities under adjustment portion or it should be under working capital changes? because the provision is made in three previous years so it should not be current expense right?
In previous three years,
Dr Exp
Cr ProvisionThis YE
Dr Provision
Cr BankSo it should be in operating activities under working changes there right? If I m wrong, please help me to rectify.
ThanksApril 4, 2018 at 7:21 pm #445018It really depends upon how the entity has treated the out-of-court settlement payment … and also it depends upon how much was paid in this settlement
Assuming that the payment was for $200 (ie exactly the amount of the figure in the provision account), your entry would work Dr Provision Account and Cr Bank / Cash
This would in effect be a short cut for the technically more detailed entries of:
Dr Provision Account 200
Cr Statement of profit or loss 200
being the elimination of the provision no longer requiredand
Dr Expense Account for (probably) Wages and Salaries 200
Cr Cash 200
being the settlement of the claim of a former employeeAs these are the entries that now remove the need to maintain a provision account in respect of this prospective payment to the former employee, I suggest that the more appropriate siting for the adjustments would be:
in arriving at Net Cash Flow from Operating Activities there should be a deduction of the non-cash item of 200 that will have been credited in arriving at profit before taxation and
also in the section for arriving at Net Cash Flow from Operating Activities there should be a cash outflow of 200 in respect of the settlement of the obligation
As for including the adjustment within the Changes in Working Capital in arriving at Net Cash Flow from Operating Activities… why would you? Why not leave it as it is and show it separately as a credit for a provision no longer required and an outflow in respect of the settlement of the out-of-court payment?
OK?
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