Accounting For Governmental & Nonprofit Entities
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ISBN: 9781259917059
Author: RECK, Jacqueline L., Lowensohn, Suzanne L., NEELY, Daniel G.
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Education,
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Chapter 3, Problem 16.9EP
Before placing a purchase order, a department should check that available appropriations are sufficient to cover the cost of the item being ordered. This type of budgetary control is achieved by reviewing
- a. Appropriations minus expenditures.
- b. Appropriations plus expenditures minus outstanding encumbrances.
- c. Appropriations minus the sum of expenditures and outstanding encumbrances.
- d. Appropriations minus estimated revenues.
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