Possibilities of Improving the Accounting of Provisions in Companies with Constuction Activity

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Keywords
accounting, construction, provisions, IAS 37 Provisions, Contingent Liabilities and Contingent Assets, AS 37 Provisions, Contingent Obligations and Contingent Assets, defects, environmental restoration, restructuring

Summary
The article examined issues concerning the nature of the provision as a reporting category, the methodology for measuring the value of provisions and the improvement of their accounting. With specific examples of the practice are represented regulated in IAS 37 / AS 37 Provisions, Contingent Obligations and Contingent Assets cases of provisioning: the removal of hidden defects (construction defects respectively), which of hidden becoming actually in the process of exploitation, environmental restoration; restructuring of the company. Proposed are three methods for determining the amount of the provision as the case of the accounting of the costs for provisions in companies with construction activity.

JEL: M 41
Pages: 21
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