Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting (11th Edition)
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780133799569
Author: Robert J. Freeman, Craig D. Shoulders, Dwayne N. McSwain, Robert B. Scott
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 2, Problem 1.8E
The city of Hannah has established a trust to provide resources to offset the costs of maintenance of the city-owned cemetery. The majority of the resources of this trust will be cemetery plot sales and donations from families of those buried in the cemetery. The trust corpus is nonexpendable in nature. Transactions associated with this trust activity would most likely be accounted for in
- a. the General Fund.
- b. a Special Revenue Fund.
- c. a Private-Purpose Trust Fund.
- d. a Permanent Fund.
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