Contingent liability
Contingent liability is liability on the part of one who discounts a note if the maker of the note defaults at maturity date.
Definitions
According to College Accounting: A Practical Approach by Slater (13th edition),
- Contingent liability. Liability on the part of one who discounts a note if the maker of the note defaults at maturity date.
Related concepts
- Accounting (alternatively known as accountancy) is management of financial data, information, and knowledge about financial transactions of legal entities. Accountancy tends to include bookkeeping and, depending on a particilar enterprise, may also include quatitative analysis of financial data in the bookkeeping system and/or business intelligence.