PROVISION FOR CREDIT LOSSES Definition

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PROVISION FOR CREDIT LOSSES, in lending institutions, is a charge to income which represents an expense deemed adequate by management given the composition of a bank's credit portfolios, their probability of default, the economic environment and the allowance for credit losses already established. Specific provisions are established to reduce the book value of specific assets (primarily loans) to establish the amount expected to be recovered on the loans. See also PROVISION.

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MBE see MANAGEMENT BY EXCEPTION.

DIRECTORS RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT contains written assurances from the board of directors that all company policies are followed: i) in the preparation of the Annual Accounts, the applicable Accounting Standards and there are no material departures; ii) selected such accounting policies and applied them consistently and made judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent so as to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Company at the end of the financial year and of the profit of the Company for that period.

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