Re: Accounting for a Loss Contingency Verdict Overturned on Appeal Date: Relevant Facts: • W Inc and your company have been engaged in litigation over a specific patent infringement matter. • In May 2007, W filed a claim. • On December 31 2007, your company determined that a loss in connection to the claim was probable. • The company estimated a loss between 15 and $20 million USD. • $17 million USD was named as the most likely amount of loss. • A jury trial took place on September
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Case 1: Contingencies 1. For the year-end December 31, 2007, financial statements, what amount should M record as a liability? ASC 450-20-25-2 states that: An estimated loss from a loss contingency shall be accrued by a charge to income if both of the following conditions are met: a. Information available before the financial statements are issued or are available to be issued indicates that it is probable that an asset had been impaired or a liability had been incurred at the date of the financial
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------------------------------------------------- Re: Loss Contingency Recognition and Reversal Background The company has been engaged in a dispute over a long-standing litigation with W Inc. The dispute involves a specific patent infringement matter. In May 2007, W Inc. filed a claim against the company for patent infringement and management determined that a loss was probable and estimated it would be between $15 million and $20 million, with $17 million being the most likely amount of loss within the estimated range
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10-K, even though the external counsel offered evidence showing the potential possible liability for Danle in Dec 2009. For the three Fiscal Year 2010’s Form 10-Qs (1st, 2nd & 3rd quarters), Danle disclosed related information about the potential loss in the footnotes and consolidated financial statements in 2010’s Form 10-K. Question 1: Disclosure Issue 2009 In 2009, the conclusion reached by Danle’s management after further assessment of the evidence discovered led the company determined not
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Contingencies 1. For the year-end December 31, 2007, financial statements, what amount should M record as a liability? For year-end December 31, 2007 M Company should accrue the liability in the amount of 17 million and disclose the liability in the notes of financial statements. M company should accrue the liability for the contingency and disclose the nature of the liability within the notes to the financial statements. This is in accordance with guidance under ASC 450-25-2, which stated, in part:
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chronological descripcion of the litigation is to be provided. Events: Problems to be addressed Is necessary to understand the proper and logical accounting literature to address the matter previously presented. The case it self provides a series of matters to be attends, these matters have to be address in accordance to the General Accepted Accounting Principles. Matters to be discussed: * The liability to be recorded by M financial statements, for the year-end December 31, 2007 * What
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Case 13-8 Accounting for a Loss Contingency for a Verdict Overturned on Appeal M International (“M”) and W Inc. (“W,” a competitor of M) have been engaged in longstanding litigation over a specific patent infringement matter. Below is a summary timeline of specific events that have taken place related to this matter: • • In May 2007, W filed a claim against M for patent infringement. For the year ended December 31, 2007, management of M determined that a loss for this matter was probable and represented
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litigation could “potentially but not probably” cause a future loss. The use of the word “potentially” can be reasonable assumed to mean reasonably possible, which is defined as more than remote but less than probable. ASC 450-20-50-3 states, “Disclosure of a contingency shall be made if there is at least a reasonable possibility that a loss or an additional loss may have been incurred,” and “an accrual is not made for a loss contingency because any of the conditions in paragraph 450-20-25-2 are not
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since a lot is left to interpretation. According to ASC 450-20-25-1, “When a loss contingency exists, the likelihood that the future event or events will confirm the loss or impairment of an asset or the incurrence of a liability can range from probable to remote.” Thus, M is dealing with a loss contingency because management determined the loss from the claim would be probable at December 2007. Moreover, the loss should be accrued due to ASC 450-20-25-2, since the “amount can be reasonably estimated”
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ExxonMobil 2011 Financial Statement Analysis and Assessment Shepherd University Abstract ExxonMobil Corporation is one of the World’s largest companies by both gross revenue and net income. Total revenue finished at $486.4 billion for 2011 and net income was $41 billion, increases of $103.2 billion and $10.6 billion respectively. ExxonMobil continues to see solid returns in both their Upstream and Downstream business areas; while the Chemical business area after a major earnings increase
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