Swell Company has a lawsuit pending from a customer claiming damages of $100,000. Swell’s attorney advises that the likelihood the customer will win is remote. GAAP requires at a minimum that this contingent liability be a. disclosed in the footnotes. b. disclosed in the footnotes, with ranges of potential loss. c. recorded as a journal entry, as well as disclosed in the footnotes. d. No disclosure is required.

Swell Company has a lawsuit pending from a customer claiming damages of $100,000. Swell’s attorney advises that the likelihood the customer will win is remote. GAAP requires at a minimum that this contingent liability be a. disclosed in the footnotes. b. disclosed in the footnotes, with ranges of potential loss. c. recorded as a journal entry, as well as disclosed in the footnotes. d. No disclosure is required.

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Contingent Liabilities and Provisions

A contingent liability can be defined as a liability the occurrence of which is dependent upon the happening of an uncertain future event. It is generally recorded in the books only when the amount of liability can be reasonably estimated and the contingency is likely to occur shortly.

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a. disclosed in the footnotes.

b. disclosed in the footnotes, with ranges of potential loss.

c. recorded as a journal entry, as well as disclosed in the footnotes.

d. No disclosure is required.

Definition Definition Method of recording financial transactions in the book of original entry by debiting and crediting the accounts affected by a transaction using the golden rules of accrual accounting.

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