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Contingent Liabilities are liabilities which arise from past events and it shall materialize its existence on occurrence or non-occurrence of a future event which may or may not happen.
Sell-Soft is the defendant in numerous law-suits claiming unfair trade practices. It has strong incentives not to disclose these contingent liabilities. GAAP requires the company to report the same. It is necessary for a company to follow the accounting principles laid down in the GAAP. Sell-Soft should hence disclose the same in their statements.
Requirement 1:
To discuss: the reasons of why a company would refrain from disclosing the contingent liabilities in the books of accounts
Requirement 2:
To discuss: the harm caused to bank in the event of a company not disclosing its contingent liabilities
Requirement 3:
the ethical tightrope while reporting contingent liabilities and the reporting responsibilities

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