https://arca.com/resources/blog/what-is-provisional-credit

Provisional credit is a temporary credit issued from a financial institution into your bank account. It's often used in situations where a transaction has not been verified or is being disputed. If you are the owner of a very successful high-volume, high-cash payment usage business, you are accustomed to having financial peaks ...

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they back you up knowing that you're not going to default

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and that's good banking

A provision is the amount of an expense that an entity elects to recognize now, before it has precise information about the exact amount of the expense. For example, an entity routinely records provisions for bad debts, sales allowances, and inventory obsolescence.

These accounts diminish the amount the Firm can distribute in the way of profits because they (potentially) affect the actual earnings... for instance the receivables... if all of the customers that pay on credit do not end up paying, you have to make provisions for that event...

credit account to pay for accrued charges or charges to come (this explains the concept of forecasting in the text in Spanish).

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Accruals are charges to come with uncertain values. This is the reason why credit accounts for accruals differ from provisional accounts.

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Accrued expense

Accrued expense is a liability whose timing or amount is uncertain by virtue of the fact that an invoice has not yet been received.[3] The uncertainty of the accrued expense is not significant enough to qualify it as a provision. An example of an accrued expense is a pending obligation to pay for goods or services received from a counterpart, while cash is to be paid out in a later accounting period when the amount is deducted from accrued expenses.

Under International Financial Reporting Standards, this difference is best summarized by IAS 37 which states:


"11 Provisions can be distinguished from other liabilities such as trade payables and accruals because there is uncertainty about the timing or amount of the future expenditure required in settlement. By contrast:

"(a) trade payables are liabilities to pay for goods or services that have been received or supplied and have been invoiced or formally agreed with the supplier; and

"(b) accruals are liabilities to pay for goods or services that have been received or supplied but have not been paid, invoiced or formally agreed with the supplier, including amounts due to employees (for example, amounts relating to accrued vacation pay). Although it is sometimes necessary to estimate the amount or timing of accruals, the uncertainty is generally much less than for provisions.

"Accruals are often reported as part of trade and other payables, whereas provisions are reported separately."

Provident Fund account.