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What is Contingent Liabilities?

  
Total Answers and Comments: 20 Last Update: October 30, 2009     Asked by: Ayaz Ahmed 
  
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A contingental liability may or maynot be liability to the company. It is mandatory to show in Balance Sheet. Ex:- Exgratia payable to Workers.  Sometimes company has to pay, sometimes may not pay.

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February 13, 2006 23:37:53   #1  
kumardurgam Member Since: February 2006   Contribution: 6    

RE: What is Contingent Liabilities?
A contingental liability may or maynot be liability to the company. It is mandatory to show in Balance Sheet. Ex:- Exgratia payable to Workers. Sometimes company has to pay sometimes may not pay.
 
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February 25, 2006 07:46:36   #2  
Ramesh.K.Jain        

RE: What is Contingent Liabilities?
A contingent liability is a liability which a company has to show in balance sheet and if that liability doesnt occur in thew future then the company need not pay.
 
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July 31, 2006 04:41:22   #3  
Shruti        

RE: What is Contingent Liabilities?
Contigent Liability is the liability which may occur or which may not occur in future.And it is shown in the foot note of the Balance Sheet.
 
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August 20, 2006 07:01:41   #4  
satya        

RE: What is Contingent Liabilities?
Contingent Liability is a liability wherein the outcome is unknown. For example the Guarantees extended are Contingent Liabilitys.
 
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November 10, 2006 15:37:35   #5  
alwina        

RE: What is Contingent Liabilities?
contigent liability is not the acctual liability of business but it is written on the liability side of balance sheet.
 
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May 15, 2007 18:59:27   #6  
sriram        

RE: What is Contingent Liabilities?
Contingent Liability is a liability which may or may not occur but it should be shown in the Notes to Accounts. It will not be a part of Balance Sheet. we can say Disputed Liability of the co.


 
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July 20, 2007 06:23:45   #7  
rama krishna, chirala        

RE: What is Contingent Liabilities?
Contingent liability may be a liability or not will be decided by the future actions of the organisation. that means future actions will decide an activity as liability or not for example : if the government policy regarding taxation is pending the trader is not in a position to decide the exact amount of tax. In this case the trader will decide the total liability of tax after the decision is finalised.
 
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July 27, 2007 11:11:35   #8  
Pashu Pati Nath Pandey        

RE: What is Contingent Liabilities?


Absence of Forsa majoriea is one of the condition which may lead to contigent liability for a company.

its nothing but a treatment given to the balance sheet in order to nullify the effect of certain type of liabilty which originate which has not been supposed to happen under normal functioning of the organisation.


for unforeseen event which give the immence pain

 
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August 09, 2007 08:56:38   #9  
Ravi Gaonkar        

RE: What is Contingent Liabilities?
Contingent Liability is a liability which may or may not occur but it should be shown in the Notes to Accounts

 
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August 17, 2007 01:45:08   #10  
Anilbabu        

RE: What is Contingent Liabilities?
Contingent Liability is a liability which may or may not occur in future but it should be shown in the Notes to Accounts under the B/S

 
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