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Why do the payable bills and interest payable not come under provision account?

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Question added by ashwin gr
Date Posted: 2017/05/18

Thats because the provision is an estimate made under the prudence concept for a probable or expected loss against any recievable or asset, while Payable bills are expenses that have been accrued and are not probable but confirmed so its not an estimate when u have certainity about some expense also the benefit against it has been obtained 

Vipul Kapadia
by Vipul Kapadia , Asst. Finance Manager , Abu Dhabi National Oil Company

Provisons are made when the accurate amount of liabilities can not be ascertained. Once it is established it will be expressed under as accrued. And payable bills (assumed as creditors for goods) are called sundry creditors or otherwise as a line item "Bills Payable"

Basit Abass Mumuni
by Basit Abass Mumuni , Administrative Assistant , Trolley

provision account is account set aside in case of any liability

RAJU PADMANABHAN
by RAJU PADMANABHAN , Chief Accountant , Woodhouse International

Provisions are not actual expenses whereas payables are actual expenses

Arvind Agarwal
by Arvind Agarwal , SAP Application Analyst , SGB SMIT Group

Because they are accrued expenses. 

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