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Neglience claim

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  • April 4, 2018 at 5:48 pm #445015
    xiiaolih
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    SOFP
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    neglience claim year 2017- 0 year 2016- 200
    Notes:
    (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 Provision

    This YE
    Dr Provision
    Cr Bank

    So it should be in operating activities under working changes there right? If I m wrong, please help me to rectify.
    Thanks

    April 4, 2018 at 7:21 pm #445018
    MikeLittle
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    It 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 required

    and

    Dr Expense Account for (probably) Wages and Salaries 200
    Cr Cash 200
    being the settlement of the claim of a former employee

    As 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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