A contingent liability is a potential cost a company may or may not incur in the future. A contingent liability could be a guarantee on a debt to another entity, a lawsuit, a government probe, or even ...

Accruing a likely contingent liability is part of responsible earnings management. Although you aren't likely to find the term "earnings management" in an accounting dictionary, the American Institute ...

A CORPORATION THAT IS SOLD OR RESTRUCTURED faces significant uncertainty about how the government will tax contingent liabilities such as environmental, tort and similar obligations. This is ...

A liability is a financial obligation or debt owed. Liabilities are key elements on every company’s balance sheet, and therefore, important to stock and bond investors. Learn more. In finance and ...

Contingent liabilities were the sacred item three years ago and it is only recently that they have become public when they were published first time in an official document, the Economic Survey of ...

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