FAR 7 Flashcards
Proprietary funds, such as enterprise funds, carry their own debt. Amounts associated with “enterprise fund” debt is?
Statement of net assets.
How are capital assets treated?
Capital leases are treated as if a purchase of fixed assets with related debt for net present value of lease payments. Capital assets and liability amount will both increase.
The appropriations control account of a governmental unit is debited when?
The budgetary accounts are closed at the end of the year.
The budgetary control account of a governmental-type fund is increased when?
A purchase order is approved.
A city has a defined contribution plan. How should the city report the pension plan in its financial statements?
Employees should disclose employer and employee obligations to contribute to the plan, a breif statement about the plan, and employee eligibility requirements.
A city should issue a statement of cash flows for which funds?
A stmt of cash flows should be issued for all proprietary funds (Enterprise and internal service fund). No statement of cash flows should be issued for either governmental funds or fiduciary funds.
Under modified accrual basis of accoutning, earned revenues should be recognized in the accounting period in which they are
Measurable and available.
Property taxes levied in fiscal year 1 to finance the general fund budget of fiscal year 2 should be reported as general fund revenues in fiscal year 2 for the amount
Collected before the end of fiscal year 2 or shortly thereafter.
How do you record a budget?
Dr. Estimated Revenues
Cr. Approrpiations Control
Cr. Estimated transfer to debt service fund
Cr. Budgetary control
What do you record in a special revenue fund?
Special revenue funds account for revenues and expenditures that are LEGALLY RESTRICTED or COMMITTED for specific purposes other than debt service or capital projects.
Where would you record levies on affected property owners to install sidewalks?
Capital Projects Fund.
Where would a non-reciprocal transfer be reported?
Internal Service Fund as a credit to “Transfers”
If a city legall adopts its annual general fund budget on the modified accrual basis of accounting, its estimated revenues should be reported
On the modified accrual basis of accounting in the general fund budgetary comparison schedule.
When goods are received that had been approved for purchase, the:
Encumbrances account should be decreased
Expenditures account should be increased
Receipt of goods prior to payment results in an accrual of the expenditure.
An enterprise fund would be used when the governing body requires that:
1) User charges cover the costs of general public services
2) Net income information be provided for an activity
Accounting for the financing of an agency’s services to other government departments on a cost reimbursement basis should be accounted for in an
Internal service fund.
The amounts in a general fund’s encumbrance account include only
Outstanding purchase order amounts.
Once an “actual expenditure for that order” has taken place (goods have been received), what happens?
The encumbrance is reversed and the actual expenditure is recorded as vouchers or accounts payable.
When serial bonds are serviced through a debt service funds with cash provided from the general fund, the debt service fund should report cash receipts and cash payments as?
Transfers (other financing sources)] Cash Payments (Operating Expenditures)
The debt service fund, which uses modified accrual accounting, will accrue interest when?
Only when it is legally due, and not at interim dates.
Proceeds from the general obligation bonds should be recorded in the?
Capital projects fund.
Liabilities associated with governmental activities should be displayed in the?
Governmental activities column of the statement of net position.
At the end of the year, construction in progress for a project should be reported in
The government wide statement of net position because the capital projects fund is closed out at year end.
Money collected by a state for the benefit of one of its cities that imposes an income tax on its residents should be accounted for by the state in an?
Agency fund.
Dr. Cash
Cr. Due to other funds- City of X
Cr. Due to states general fund (if state charged fee for the service)
