FA Chapter 5 Questions IAS 37 – Provisions, Contingent Liabilities and Contingent Assets
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Given that it is probable that they will have to pay $3,000 then they have to provide $3,000 as explained in the free lectures.
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The 6% statistics and warranty question was a tricky one indeed !
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Hi, I’m not really understand this question.
For item1, its stated : The company gives warranties on its products. Means, its would category as “Contingent Asset”.
I don’t understand why it is Virtually Certain. I’m not understand the following sentences very well.
For item2. I’m also not understand the whole sentences very well.
Could you please help/ assist me on this?
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I am not sure which question you are referring to.
However a warrant is the same as a guarantee. So it will be a liability and not an asset. It is virtually certain that there will be some claims on the warranty (completely separate from what % of claims there will be).
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The one thing is everyone confused and even I was confused about it was the 60%. This 60% is the chances that the company will pay the 100,000 not the 60% of 100,000. So
100,000 +10,000 = 110,000
‘Everyone’ is not confused. If you have watched the free lectures first, then there is nothing to be confused about (and the wording of the question is copied from real exam questions).
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in question 4 thought the $100,000 of the customer claim and the $10,000 of the lawyers fee to be contingent liability, why is it an expense?
The $100,000 is probable (between 50 and 95%) and is therefore provided for as an expense.
The $10,000 is certain and therefore is again provided for as an expense.
Did you watch the free lectures on this before attempting the test? 🙂
Please explain why it is expense and not a liability?
It is a liability – that is what ‘provide’ means!
Just like an accrual, it appears as an expense in the SOPL and a liability in the SOFP.
Have you watched the free lectures?
I am confuse about provisions.
If there is present obligation e.g any court case as a result of past event and reliable estimate can be made. And lawyers tell that it is likely that opponent will win case and bussiness is likely to pay estimated amount?
What should we do?
I explain this in my free lectures! It is a contingent liability and if it is ‘probable’ then they will provide for the liability.
I am confuse about provisions.
If there is present obligation e.g any court case as a result of past event and reliable estimate can be made. And lawyers tell that it is likely that opponent will win case and bussineaa is likely to pay estimated amount?
What should we do?
In question 2, item 1 the company gives warranties on its products. The company’s statistics shows that about 6% of sales give rise to a warranty claim.
I don’t understand why the answer will be virtually certain but not possible?
The company << it is stand for company Q or another company?
I am a bit confusing
Thanks you
Essentially, the statistics suggest that around 6% of sales will give rise to a warranty claim, not that there is a 6% likelihood that there will be a warranty claim.
What Roger has written is correct.
It is virtually certain that there will be warranty claims – in the past there always have been warranty claims (about 6% of the sales result in warranty claims). The only relevance of the 6% would be in calculating how much the likely claims would be this year (but that is not asked for) 🙂
If it’s virtually certain then shouldn’t I just include it in liabilities, rather than disclosing a note?
Disregard that. That was the answer. I clicked the wrong button.
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Do make sure you do lots of practice – you should buy a Revision Kit from one of the ACCA approved publishers because they have lots of exam-standard questions to practice on.
In question 3, provision was made as the lawer advice,
In Q 4, i am confuse at provision,
Please explain me Q4, Thx
The probability of have to pay is 60% so the need to provide for 100,000.
In addition they will have to pay the lawyers fees of 10,000.
So a total of 110,000
In question 3 , provision of 3000 is created what about the other 2000 ? should that be disclosed in a note ?
Yes it would.
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