If you're due retainage fees, this should be recorded as an asset. If you owe retainage though, this should be recorded as a liability. Based on this, retainage receivable accounts will reflect as a debit balance, and retainage payables will show as a credit.
In proprietary funds liabilities are recognized when they are incurred, and do not need to meet the due and payable criteria established for governmental funds. As such, retainage should be recorded as a liability in new retainage account code 605 Retained Percentages, Contracts Payable in these funds.
Retention receivable is similar to accounts receivable. Accounts receivable are monies invoiced and due from your customers. When retention is subtracted from the invoice, the amount held is recorded as retention receivable.
Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation.
When the condition to complete the job must be fulfilled before there is an unconditional right to receipt of retention and that the receivable is conditional on more than just the passage of time, then retention receivable is a component of the contract asset.
Teaming Agreements often state that the parties will negotiate the details of the subcontract, typically after award of the prime contract. Maryland and Virginia have held that such non- specific teaming agreements are unenforceable, because they are merely “agreements to agree.” Advance Telecom Process, LLC v.
A contract consists of a legally binding agreement or promise between parties. The agreement must be voluntary and made by competent parties. The promise or agreement must be supported by an exchange of something of value (e.g., goods or services). This exchange must be legal.
Teaming agreements, unlike other teaming arrangements, often only apply to one solicitation or to a specific government program and therefore: Limit the parties' obligations to one another. Team members can tailor their negotiations to the specific solicitation and provide for a variety of termination provisions.