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16. Format/contents Of CAFR, Typical Items/specific Type Of Transactons/events Flashcards

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What are 3 sections of the Comprehensive annual financial report (CAFR)?

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Introductory
Financial
Statistical

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What’s included in the introductory section?

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Letter of transmittal
Organization chart
Principal officers
Other

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What’s included in the financial section?

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Independent auditor's report
MD&A
Basic financial stmts
RSI
Combining stmts and individual fund stmts
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What’s included in the statistical section?

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Financial trend
Revenue capacity
Debt capacity
Demographic and economic
Operating information
Other
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What are the minimum required financial reporting?

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MD&A
Basic financial stmts
RSI

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What’s included in the basic financial stmts?

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Government wide financial stmts
Fund financial stmts
Notes

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What are 2 financial stmts for government wide stmts?

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Stmt of net position

Stmt of activities

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What’s included in stmt of net position?

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Governmental activities
Business activities
Net position: net investment in capital assets, restricted, unrestricted

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What are 2 sections in the stmt of activities and 4 sections within each of the 2?

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Governmental activities
Business activities

Program expenses
Program revenues
Net program (expenses) revenues
General revenues

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How to handle internal service funds?

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Blends in governmental activities section (most) and business type activities section (a few).

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Which fund is included in business activities?

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Enterprise fund

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How to handle capital outlay expenditures? Depreciation expense? Debt principal pmt expenditures? Interest expenditures?

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Eliminate and establish capital assets.
Record (it was not recorded).
Eliminate and establish debt principal.
Convert to interest expense.

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How to handle interfund payable/receivable, transfers?

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Eliminate

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What are 2 financial reporting units?

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Primary government

Component unit

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Elected governing body
Separate legal entity
Fiscal independence
Which reporting unit?

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PG

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What are 2 characteristic of a component unit?

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Financially dependent

Financially accountable to primary government.

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List 3 cases of financial accountability

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Appointing authority + financial benefits/burdens
Appointing authority + ability to impose will
Fiscal dependence + financial benefits/burdens

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What are 3 characteristics of financial dependence?

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Establish its budget
Levy tax or set rates or charge
Issued bonded debt

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Can tax exempt organization a component unit? When?

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Yes. When it raises or holds economic resources for the direct benefits of the PG

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What are 2 presentation approach for CP?

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Blended (when PG/CU activities similar)
Discretely presented (separate column)
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When can the blended approach be used?

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CU’s and PG’s governing body are substantially the same
CU provides services only for the PG
CU benefits PG exclusively
PG has a fiduciary responsibility for CU (pension plan)

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What are two major fund rules?

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Total assets and deferred outflow of resources, liab and deferred inflow of resources, revenues, or expenditures/expenses of any individual governmental fund or enterprise fund are at least:
10% of the total corresponding amounts for all funds of the category, and
5% of the corresponding amounts for that element (ex: revenue) for all governmental and enterprise fund combined

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Is general fund major or non major fund?

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Always major fund

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How to report all non major funds?

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Which funds require budgetary comparisons for reporting?
General fund | Annually budgeted major special revenue
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Is internal service fund major or non major? How are they reported?
Neither. Aggregated in one column
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Are fiduciary funds major or non major?
Never major fund
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What are 4 types of interfund transactions?
Quasi-external transactions (fee involved services between funds) Reimbursements Transfers Loans
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If a fund pays for a vender for another fund in error, how should reimbursement recoded?
Reduction of expenditure/expense
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What are the account names for ST and LT loans?
Due to, due from | Advance to, advance from
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What are examples of infrastructure (systems of things) assets?
Highways, bridges, streets, sidewalks, sewerage systems, drainage systems, lighting systems
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Infrastructure assets should be capitalized and depreciated unless modified approach is taken. Explain
Elect not to capitalize the asset and not to depreciate if: The government preserves the asset in a condition equal to or above the original condition Expenditures to preserve the condition are expensed as a substitute for depr. Must: Record keeping and documentation of condition status R: up to date inventory, condition assessment, estimate of cost to maintain/preserve D: complete assessment every 3 yrs, evidence of ok in most recent document
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List 4 new terminology for pension accounting.
Accounting base approach Net pension liab The entry-age actuarial cost method Biennial actuarial valuations required
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Pension and Other post-employment benefits (OPEB): | Governmental Funds: net pension liab and pension expenditure?
The amount expected to be liquidated with expendable available financial resources The total of amounts to be pd to the pension and the change in the beg/end net pension liab
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Pension and OPEB: proprietary funds: | Net pension liab and pension expense
Residual amount Changes in net pension liab
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Capital lease criteria and treatment for government wide and proprietary funds? Governmental funds?
Same as for profit Asset value: PV of minimum pmt + initial cash pmt No asset reported. Recognize pmts as expenditures as it pays
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Municipal landfill: usually which fund? | Allocation method?
Proprietary fund Units of production method
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What are 6 classification for expenditures?
By fund, program/function, activity under the program, organizational unit, character, object
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Character classification: identify expenditures based on what? List 4 types
Period benefited Current Capital outlay Debt service Intergovernmental
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Object (names) classification examples
The names Supplies, land, building ....
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Revenue classification is often based on what?
On sources
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What are 4 types of non exchange transactions?
Derived tax revenues (from exchange transactions such as fuel tax) Imposed tax revenue (from assessment or levy) Government mandate (abuse program in exchange of grant...) Voluntary (legislative/contractual agreements between willing parties)
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Tax abatement: should it be reported individually or aggregated?
Both ok
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Tax abatement disclosures?
``` Brief description Gross dollar amounts Amounts receivable from other government Any other commitments If disclosed individually, describe threshold to determine which to disclose Describe when it can't disclose info ```
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Pollution remediation: obligation recognized when?
Government knows or reasonably believe a site is polluted Obligating events occur 1. Imminent danger 2. Government violation 3. Government responsible for clean up 4. Government named in lawsuit 5. Commence or legally obligated to clean up
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How to calculate estimated liab for pollution remediation
A probability-weighted procedure | Estimate amount x %. Add all
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Intangible assets, internally generated computer software. 3 stages? What should be capitalized?
Preliminary project stage Application development stage Post-implementation/operation stage Only application development stage
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Software modification later. When can it be capitalized?
Increased functionality Increased efficiency Extend its useful life
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Land held as investment by endowment: how to treat change in FV?
Investment income
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Derivatives: how to treat change in FV?
If investment derivative: as income | If hedging derivatives: deferred inflow of resources
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External investment pools: when can it be reported at amortized cost? (if doesn't meet, FV).
Transact at a stable net asset value of $1 per share Meets portfolio requirements Meets shadow pricing requirements
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List 5 portfolio requirements
Maturity: mature less than 13 mo. Weighted average maturity less than 60days or less Quality: By highest credit rating. No more than 3% in second highest category Diversification: no more than 5% from one issuer (10% if there is credit support) Liquidity: 10% in daily liquid assets. 30% in weekly Shadow pricing
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Irrevocable split interest agreement: how to treat changes in FV. In case of government=intermediary and not.
+/- in remainder interest +/- in deferred inflow Lead interest or remainder interest.
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What are items that needs to be adjusted for government-wide stmt?
BS: Add Capital asset, accumulated depreciation, LT liabilities. Dissolve internal service fund (don't forget assets/LT liability has been already taken care of above. Just take Current assets/liabilities). Eliminate internal balance. Stmt of activities: Eliminate capital outlay expenditures. Add depreciation exp. Eliminate transfers (other financial sources and uses). Convert expenditures to expense, revenue to accrual basis. Dissolve internal service fund profit (loss) to decrease (increase) expenses.
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Is transfers and internal loans recorded in the government wide stmt?
No.
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Bonds approved by voters for capital project. JE? Sold a bond and received cash: JE for fund level and G level? Construction takes place: JE?
No entry. F: Dr: Cash. Cr: Other financing source. G: Dr: Cash. Cr: Bonds payable. F: Dr: Expenditures. Cr: Cash or payable. G: Dr: Building. Cr: Cash or payable.
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Pay loans: JE under debt service fund and G level?
F: Dr: Expenditure - Interest. Dr: Expenditure - Principal. Cr: Cash. G: Dr: Interest expense. Dr: Bonds payable. Cr:Cash.

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