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  2. Provision (accounting) - Wikipedia

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    In financial accounting under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), a provision is an account that records a present liability of an entity. The recording of the liability in the entity's balance sheet is matched to an appropriate expense account on the entity's income statement .

  3. Reserve (accounting) - Wikipedia

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    In nonprofit accounting, an "operating reserve" is the unrestricted cash on hand available to sustain an organization, and nonprofit boards usually specify a target of maintaining several months of operating cash or a percentage of their annual income, called an operating reserve ratio.

  4. IAS 37 - Wikipedia

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    The accounting for provisions is similar to United States accounting for asset retirement obligations under ASC 410. Contingent assets and liabilities IAS 37 generally defines contingent assets and liabilities as assets and liabilities that arose from past events but whose existence will only be confirmed by the occurrence of future events that ...

  5. Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses - Wikipedia

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    Some of the general challenges that financial institutions face with regards to the ALLL estimation include the manual, time-intensive nature of the reserve estimation process each month or quarter; producing adequate documentation and disclosures; incorporating new accounting standards and regulations released by FASB and federal regulatory bodies, and increased scrutiny on the assumptions ...

  6. Current Expected Credit Losses - Wikipedia

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    Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL) is a credit loss accounting standard (model) that was issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board on June 16, 2016. [1] CECL replaced the previous Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses (ALLL) accounting standard. The CECL standard focuses on estimation of expected losses over the life of the loans ...

  7. Asset retirement obligation - Wikipedia

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    (Accretion expense would be $115.41 the first year, $125.79 the second year, etc.) Over the 40 year life, the liability thereby increases to $40,275.96. At retirement of the tank, the expenses actually incurred to remove the tank are booked against the ARO, and a gain or loss is recognized for the difference.

  8. Lower rates mean lower deposit rates, right? Probably not - AOL

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    Loan and deposit pricing are tied together. Your conversations with friends and relatives probably paint a pretty clear picture of today’s pent-up loan demand among everyday people and businesses.

  9. Cookie jar accounting - Wikipedia

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    In 2002, WorldCom Inc., the carrier of about half of all Internet traffic, used the cookie jar accounting methods by using reserves to boost their earnings. This case was the largest among those who misused reserves in the same way. More specifically, WorldCom increased provision for projected expenses and used these to increase the earnings ...