Memo for ABC Complete Kitchens Inc

Accounts payable - The management of debt incurred and not yet paid. All invoices, statements and operational expenses are included.

Current liabilities are defined as: “Debts due to be paid with cash or with goods and services within one year, or within the entity’s operating cycle if the cycle is longer than a year.” (Hongren, Harrison & Oliver, 2012) These liabilities fit into three categories: Current liabilities of known amount; current liabilities that must be estimated; and contingent liabilities. According to the matching principle of accounting, expenses and revenues need to be reported during the same period that they are earned. This can be difficult if the exact amounts are not known. This is the purpose behind estimated and contingent liabilities. In order to provide accurate financial reports companies must record revenues and

31.  Current liabilities are amounts that must be paid within a short period of time, usually less than a year.  TRUE

After reviewing the Balance sheet I have a concern regarding the Current and short term liabilities. Creditors/ trade payable is payment yet to be made for goods already received, if this continues to rise then it will effect the business profit and less stock will have to be ordered so repayments can be made. Bank overdrafts also continued to rise and in the long-term the business will be paying greater interest, which will again eat into the profit. Both increased quite a great deal from the last year-end. If this continues then the business will get into bad debts and owe too much that it will end up having to sale its assets to survive. Finally I can see that due to the above issues and other issues the net current assets/ working capital has decreased so therefore the business is less value then it was a year ago. If the business is worth £1 million now, this could soon decrease within another year.

Accounts payables are short term debts a company owes to its creditors. Notes payables are usually written contracts and long term debts companies have promises to pay its creditors. Accrued expenses are recognized by a company before they are paid for. An example of this would be a tax bill received from the town or city the company is located in. While all of these are recognized as current liabilities on a company’s financial reports they are all recorded in different time frames. Account payables are recognized when they are incurred and the payment of them is also due at the same time. Where both Notes payables and Accrued expenses are shown in the current liabilities but are due at a future date

Accounts receivable are amounts owed by customers on account. They result from the sale of goods and services on credit. These receivables are generally expected to be collected within 30 to 60 days. They are typically the most significant type of claim held by a company. Accounts receivable and notes receivable resulting from sales are also known as trade receivables. Accounts receivable resulting from sales are referred to as trade receivables in Alcatel's financial statements.

Liabilities. Accounts and notes payable increased proportionately to the net sales increasing total current liabilities by the same proportions. Mortgage payable decreased consistently over the three years as did other long term liabilities. Overall, liabilities continued to decrease over the three year period.

b. The fair value of a liability cannot differ from the amount appearing on the balance

Based on this information, only an immaterial amount of companies actually accrue a liability in their financial statement. Therefore, M Corporation will simply provide disclosure of the contingency and an estimate of the possible loss or range of loss for the future pending litigation in its 2007 financial statement under Note: Contingencies and Commitments. If M Corporation accrued a liability on its 2007 financial statements, then the company becomes too transparent to opposing counsel and it could have serious adverse effects on M’s operations.

Classify the following as long term or current liabilities: Accounts Payable, Accrued Liabilities, Note Payable with total balance due in 5 years, Mortgage Loan with payments made monthly over 5 years.

When an account receivable is determined to be uncollectable it is no longer qualified as an asset and should be written off. A write off reduced the balance of the customers

Account receivables accounts for purchases which consumers have not yet aid for. This takes cares of any losses that the firm might incur due to allowing credit to certain clients. Bad debts are recorded in the income statement and they represent the des which the company doesn’t expect to be paid back. The account

a) Contingent liabilities are potential losses by a company via unforeseen evenst such as court cases, product liability, or disaster. A contingent asset is one that provides unforeseen benefits to the company, which also results from an unforeseen future event. Because this cannot be foreseen in advance, it does not appear on the financial statements of the company, but it can appear on the financial statement notes. In the case of BP, amounts that the company can recover from third parties as part of its contractual rights can be considered contingent assets. These are only recognized int eh accounts if they are a virtual certainty to be received.

Further, the company records their contingent liabilities based on the estimation on the amount likely to be incurred on clearing the contingency. Contingent liabilities are incurred on legal claims on intellectual properties, law suits and paying employee benefits.

Assets in the financial statement are always required and show useful information to investors and understand where the information comes from. For instance, accounts receivable net which the organization does not expect to collect all of the money it is due from all patients and insurers, (Finkler, S.A., Ward, D.M. & Calabrese, I.D., 2013). The bad debts become about of the money due. Furthermore, accounts receivables, net represents gross charges less an allowance for poor debts, and many contractual allowances established with those third party payers. Typically, an example of a bad debt would show charges of a large sum of money delivered from a hospital. Then, the contractual allowances from