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Which of the following statements is false with respect to modified accrual accounting?

A) Generally, expenditures are recorded and fund liabilities are recognized when goods and services are received, but only to the extent that there are resources available in the fund.
B) Many expenditures are accrued, even in governmental funds.
C) Expenditures for claims and judgments, compensated absences, pensions and landfill closure and postclosure care costs of governmental funds should be recognized to the extent that the liabilities are going to be paid with available resources.
D) Debt service expenditures for principal and interest are recorded when due. This means that debt service expenditures are not accrued, but are recognized and fund liabilities are recorded on the maturity date.

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Which of the following is not likely to be recorded in a special revenue fund?

A) Phone fees restricted to supporting the emergency 911 access system.
B) Hotel taxes restricted to promoting tourism.
C) Sales taxes restricted to courthouse additions.
D) State motor fuel tax restricted to road maintenance.

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Special revenue funds are used when it is desirable to provide separate reporting of resources that are assigned to expenditure for purposes other than debt service or capital projects.

Resources appropriately reported within proprietary or fiduciary funds are included in special revenue funds.

Interfund transactions are of particular interest to financial statement preparers and users since failure to properly report these transactions will result in two funds being misstated.

The journal entry to record the budget of a Special Revenue Fund would include:

Moving cash from the General Fund to a debt service fund for payment of debt service is an example of a an

The journal entry to record the re-establishment of encumbrances that were outstanding at the close of the prior period would include:

In the General Fund, revenues are recognized when measurable and earned.

Every general purpose government may have more than one General Fund.

The General Fund of the City of Bangor purchased water from its Water Utility Fund in the amount of $20,000. The General Fund would debit:

Most interfund transfers are not eliminated in the government-wide statements.

The following information was available for the General Fund of the City of Thomasville for the Year Ended December 31, 2017: a) Revenues for the year included property taxes in the amount of $6,612,000, fines and forfeits in the amount of $ 700,000, and miscellaneous in the amount of $400,000. b) Expenditures from current appropriations included: general government, $4,847,000; public safety, $1,884,000; culture and recreation, 812,000. c) In addition to b) above, expenditures related to prior year appropriations encumbered last year amounted to $40,000 public safety. Encumbrances issued this year but not filled amounted to $60,000 general government. d) A transfer was made from the General Fund to a debt service fund in the amount of $500,000. A transfer was made from an enterprise fund to the General Fund in the amount of $450,000. e) A sale of park land was made during the year, which was considered infrequent but not unusual and under the control of management. The proceeds amounted to $126,000, and the land had a basis of $90,000 reported in the government-wide Statement of Net Position the year before. f) Beginning balances included Fund Balance in the amount of $222,000. Required: Prepare a Statement of Revenues, Expenditures, and Changes in Fund Balances for the General Fund for the City of Thomasville for the Year Ended December 31, 2017.

Expenditures are generally recorded and fund liabilities are recognized

When would a special revenue fund be deemed to have satisfied the eligibility requirement of a reimbursement-type federal grant, under GASB Statement 33?

When closing the General Fund and Special Revenue Funds of a state or local governmental unit, the balance of the operating statement accounts and the balances of the budgetary accounts are closed

When establishing funds, governments should attempt to minimize the number of special revenue and other funds, instead using functional classification to record transaction detail.

Which of the following is true regarding modified accrual accounting?

If the government expects that a substantial portion of the resources supporting a special revenue fund's activities will no longer be derived from restricted and committed revenue sources, the government should discontinue the use of a special revenue fund and report the fund's remaining resources in the General Fund.

The General Fund accounts for any resources not reported in one of the other funds.