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Contingent Bank has the following balance sheet in market value terms (in millions of dollars).
Assets Liabilities
Cash $20 Deposits $220
Mortgages 220 Equity 20
Total assets $240 Total liabilities and equity $240
In addition, the bank has contingent assets with $100 million market value and contingent liabilities with $80 million market value. What is the true stockholder net worth? What does the term contingent mean?
First of all contingent means subject to chance. Hence contingent liabilities and assets are those which can arise in the future but we cannot add it to the balance sheet because there is uncertainty involved.
If we assume that these assets and liabilities will come up,
New assets = 240 + 100 = $340
New liabilities = 220 + 80 = $300
Hence stockholder net worth = Assets - Liabilities = 340 - 300 = $40