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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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    A reserve can appear in any part of shareholders' equity except for contributed or basic share capital. 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 ...

  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. Revaluation of fixed assets - Wikipedia

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    Revaluation Reserve is treated as a Capital Reserve. The increase in depreciation arising out of revaluation of fixed assets is debited to revaluation reserve and the normal depreciation to Profit and Loss account. Selection of the most suitable method of revaluation is extremely important. The most used method is the appraisal method.

  6. Balance sheet - Wikipedia

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    In financial accounting, a balance sheet (also known as statement of financial position or statement of financial condition) is a summary of the financial balances of an individual or organization, whether it be a sole proprietorship, a business partnership, a corporation, private limited company or other organization such as government or not-for-profit entity.

  7. Tier 1 capital - Wikipedia

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    Tier 1 capital is the core measure of a bank's financial strength from a regulator's point of view. [note 1] It is composed of core capital, [1] which consists primarily of common stock and disclosed reserves (or retained earnings), [2] but may also include non-redeemable non-cumulative preferred stock.

  8. Statement of changes in equity - Wikipedia

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    The statement explains the changes in a company's share capital, accumulated reserves and retained earnings over the reporting period. It breaks down changes in the owners' interest in the organization, and in the application of retained profit or surplus from one accounting period to the next.

  9. Cookie jar accounting - Wikipedia

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    Cookie jar accounting or cookie jar reserves is an accounting practice in which a company takes a quantity of large reserves from an economically successful year and incurs them against losses from less successful years. Through this process, companies can mislead investors into believing that their losses are less than the actual value.