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What is a contigent liability ? and where it is shown in the final account?

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Question added by Mohan Cherian , Senior Accountant , First Bateel General Trading & Contracting Co. (Al Roumi Group )
Date Posted: 2014/02/16
Balaji Kobula Premanth
by Balaji Kobula Premanth , Senior Accountant , Ishtar Decor LLC

Contingent liaility usually arise when company have a significant financial risk indirectly, for example, Company issuing letter of guarantee to their client without paying the value of the guarantee and used through the bank facility they have, in this case this is a contingent liaility. This guarantee value will not appear anywhere in the final account of the books, but it should be shown as a separate notes in the financial statement/Audit Report. 

FITAH MOHAMED
by FITAH MOHAMED , Financial Manager , FUEL AND ENERGY CO for transportion petroleum materials

A contingent liability is one where the outcome of an existing situation is uncertain, and this uncertainty will be resolved by a future event. a contingent liability is recorded in the books of accounts only if the contingency is probable and the amount of the liability can be estimated 

It is shown in the  balance sheet liabilities side 

 

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