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 4, Problem 1Q
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Explain the differences between the General Fund and Special Revenue Funds. Explain how the accounting and reporting requirements differ in the General Fund and Special Revenue Funds.
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The differences between the General Fund and Special Revenue Funds are as below:
- All levels of Government maintain general funds. However, special revenue funds may or may not be maintained by Government, as special revenue fund is required to finance only special projects.
- The general funds may be used to finance every activity which needs to be funded. The special revenue funds need to be spent only on the projects specifically for which they had been created, thereby restricting the use of this fund.
The accounting and reporting requirements in the General Fund and Special Revenue Funds are differed in the following ways:
- A government organization can create only one general fund, but it can create more than one special revenue fund depends upon the number of specific purposes of the organization.
- General fund reports the use of the financial resources on an annual basis. However, Special revenue fund rarely report the use of the financial resources on an annual basis; mostly it continues till the time period of the project associated with the fund.
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