(a) Explain how the amount of a provision should be measured. (b) A company needs to make...
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(a) Explain how the amount of a provision should be measured.
(b) A company needs to make a provision for the cost of repairing a faulty product supplied to a customer some weeks previously. The company estimates that there is a 60 per cent chance that this repair will cost EUR 200,000. However, there is a 30 per cent chance that the cost will be EUR 300,000 and a 10 per cent chance that the cost will be EUR 400,000. How should the amount of the provision be measured?
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Advanced Financial Accounting An International Approach
ISBN: 9780273712749
1st Edition
Authors: Jagdish Kothari, Elisabetta Barone
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