Advanced Accounting
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ISBN: 9781260247824
Author: Joe Ben Hoyle, Thomas F. Schaefer, Timothy S. Doupnik
Publisher: RENT MCG
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Chapter 16, Problem 14P
At the end of the current year, a government reports a fund balance—assigned balance of $9,000 in connection with an encumbrance. What information is being conveyed?
- a. A donor has given the government $9,000 that must be used in a specified fashion.
- b. The government has made $9,000 in commitments in one year that will be honored in the subsequent year.
- c. Encumbrances exceeded expenditures by $9,000 during the current year.
- d. The government spent $9,000 less than was appropriated.
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