Your business partner has proposed you to join him (her) in investing $100000 each in a new enterprise. assume that you have tha
t amount of money available. in case of success your return is $40000 but in case of failure you lose $20000. your analysis shows P40=0.3 of success and P-20=0.7 of failure. would you invest?what is your investment risk preference and analysis?
When payment is received in respect of services rendered or goods sold in the past periods, the accounting rule is to debit cash or bank as the case may be and credit account receivable for the amount received. This is necessary because in period when transaction took place, revenue has been credited and account receivable debited.
Explanation: In simple words , contingent liabilities refers to the liabilities the occurrence of which depends on the happening of an event that may or may not occur in the future.
These are recorded in the accounts only when the payment is to be made in future and that payment could be reasonably estimated.