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    This standard provides guidance on accounting for provisions, contingent liabilities, and contingent assets. It requires recognition of provisions when an entity has a present obligation from a past event that makes an outflow of resources probable and the amount can be reliably estimated. Contingent liabilities are possible obligations from past events whose existence depends on uncertain future events, and are disclosed but not recognized. Contingent assets are possible assets from past events and are not recognized until realization is virtually certain.

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    This standard provides guidance on accounting for provisions, contingent liabilities, and contingent assets. It requires recognition of provisions when an entity has a present obligation from a past event that makes an outflow of resources probable and the amount can be reliably estimated. Contingent liabilities are possible obligations from past events whose existence depends on uncertain future events, and are disclosed but not recognized. Contingent assets are possible assets from past events and are not recognized until realization is virtually certain.

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    2009

    Technical Summary

    IAS 37 Provisions, Contingent Liabilities and


    Contingent Assets
    as issued at 1 January 2009
    This extract has been prepared by IASC Foundation staff and has not been approved by the IASB. For the requirements
    reference must be made to International Financial Reporting Standards.

    The objective of this Standard is to ensure that appropriate recognition criteria and measurement bases are
    applied to provisions, contingent liabilities and contingent assets and that sufficient information is disclosed in
    the notes to enable users to understand their nature, timing and amount.

    IAS 37 prescribes the accounting and disclosure for all provisions, contingent liabilities and contingent assets,
    except:

    (a) those resulting from financial instruments that are carried at fair value;
    (b) those resulting from executory contracts, except where the contract is onerous. Executory contracts are
    contracts under which neither party has performed any of its obligations or both parties have partially
    performed their obligations to an equal extent;
    (c) those arising in insurance entities from contracts with policyholders; or
    (d) those covered by another Standard.

    Provisions

    A provision is a liability of uncertain timing or amount.

    Recognition

    A provision should be recognised when:

    (a) an entity has a present obligation (legal or constructive) as a result of a past event;
    (b) it is probable that an outflow of resources embodying economic benefits will be required to settle the
    obligation; and
    (c) a reliable estimate can be made of the amount of the obligation.

    If these conditions are not met, no provision shall be recognised.


    In rare cases it is not clear whether there is a present obligation. In these cases, a past event is deemed to give
    rise to a present obligation if, taking account of all available evidence, it is more likely than not that a present
    obligation exists at the end of the reporting period.

    Measurement

    The amount recognised as a provision shall be the best estimate of the expenditure required to settle the present
    obligation at the end of the reporting period. The best estimate of the expenditure required to settle the present
    obligation is the amount that an entity would rationally pay to settle the obligation at the end of the reporting
    period or to transfer it to a third party at that time.

    Where the provision being measured involves a large population of items, the obligation is estimated by
    weighting all possible outcomes by their associated probabilities. Where a single obligation is being measured,
    the individual most likely outcome may be the best estimate of the liability. However, even in such a case, the
    entity considers other possible outcomes.

    Contingent liabilities

    A contingent liability is:


    (a) a possible obligation that arises from past events and whose existence will be confirmed only by the
    occurrence or non-occurrence of one or more uncertain future events not wholly within the control of the
    entity; or
    (b) a present obligation that arises from past events but is not recognised because:
    (i) it is not probable that an outflow of resources embodying economic benefits will be required to settle
    the obligation; or
    (ii) the amount of the obligation cannot be measured with sufficient reliability.

    An entity should not recognise a contingent liability. An entity should disclose a contingent liability, unless the
    possibility of an outflow of resources embodying economic benefits is remote.

    Contingent assets

    A contingent asset is a possible asset that arises from past events and whose existence will be confirmed only
    by the occurrence or non-occurrence of one or more uncertain future events not wholly within the control of
    the entity.

    An entity shall not recognise a contingent asset. However, when the realisation of income is virtually certain,
    then the related asset is not a contingent asset and its recognition is appropriate.

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