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 8E
(Fund Balance Classification) Your firm is auditing the financial statements of the City of Mensah’s Point for the year ended December 31, 20X4. You have been assigned to review a fund balance schedule to see if you can identify any likely errors in the fund balance section of the governmental funds balance sheet. The fund balance section, as prepared by the finance staff of the city, is presented below.
- a. Identify any apparent misclassifications of fund balance and explain the basis for your Required opinion that the amounts are misclassified.
- b. Draft a corrected fund balance schedule. State any assumptions made other than those you explained in a.
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Preparation of fund financial statements and schedules
Prepare a governmental funds balance sheet; a governmental funds statement of revenues, expenditures, and changes in fund balances; and a General Fund budgetary comparison schedule. In the budgetary comparison schedule, include a column for variances. To ease financial statement preparation, we supply you with the pre-closing trial balances for Croton City’s General Fund, Library Special Revenue Fund, Capital Projects Fund, and Debt Service Fund. Consider all funds as major funds for this exercise and classify the fund balance for the Debt Service Fund as Assigned fund balance. In addition, make calculations to determine which of the funds would be considered as nonmajor if Croton had not considered all of them to be major.
Preclosing Trial Balance for Croton City
General Fund
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Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting (11th Edition)
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