Three financial statements are required for proprietary funds: a Statement of Net Assets or Balance Sheet; a Statement of Revenues, Expenses, and Changes in Fund Net Assets; and a Statem
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ILLUSTRATION 6–1 Summary of Proprietary Funds
Fund Name Accrual Basis Economic Resour
✓ ✓ Funds used to report activities that provide goods
and services to other funds, departments, or agencies on a cost-reimbursement basis They are used when the government is the predominant user of the goods or services.
Indefinite life Internal service funds are created
by the government and exist at the discretion of the government.
Enterprise Fund
✓ ✓ Funds used to report activities in which users are
charged a fee for goods or services They are appropriate when individuals or businesses external to the government are the predominant users.
Indefinite life Enterprise funds must be tained if debt is secured solely by user charges, laws require that costs be recovered through user charges, or government policy requires setting charges to cover the costs of providing the goods or service.
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Because revenues and expenses (not expenditures) are recognized on the accrual
basis, financial statements of proprietary funds are similar in many respects to those
of business organizations Fixed assets used in fund operations and long-term debt
serviced from fund revenues are recorded in the accounts of each proprietary fund
Depreciation on fixed assets is recognized as an expense, and other accruals and
de-ferrals common to business accounting are recorded in proprietary funds Budgets
should be prepared for proprietary funds to facilitate management of fund
activi-ties, but GASB standards do not require or encourage budget-actual reporting
The use of accrual accounting permits financial statement users to observe
whether proprietary funds are operated at a profit or a loss The accrual basis of
accounting requires revenues to be recognized when earned and expenses to be
recognized when goods and services are used
Two types of funds are classified as proprietary funds: internal service funds and
enterprise funds Internal service funds provide, on a user charge basis, services to
other government departments Enterprise funds provide, on a user charge basis,
services to the public Three financial statements are required for proprietary funds:
a Statement of Net Assets (or Balance Sheet); a Statement of Revenues, Expenses,
and Changes in Fund Net Assets; and a Statement of Cash Flows As is true for
governmental funds, enterprise funds are reported by major fund, with nonmajor
funds presented in a separate column However, internal service funds are reported
in a single column These statements will be discussed in more detail and illustrated
later in this chapter
GASB Statement No 20 provides guidance regarding the application of private
sector accounting pronouncements to the accounting and reporting for proprietary
funds All FASB Statements and Interpretations, Accounting Principles Board
Opin-ions, and Accounting Research Bulletins issued on or before November 30, 1989,
that do not contradict GASB pronouncements are presumed to apply In addition,
for enterprise funds (but not for internal service funds), governments have the
op-tion to apply (or not apply) FASB Statements and Interpretaop-tions that are issued after
November 30, 1989, and that apply to business organizations (FASB statements and
interpretations applicable only to not-for-profit organizations do not apply to
gov-ernments) The option chosen must be disclosed in the notes
INTERNAL SERVICE FUNDS
As governments become more complex, efficiency can be improved if services used
by several departments or funds or even by several governmental units are combined
in a single department Purchasing, computer services, garages, janitorial services,
and risk management activities are common examples Activities that produce goods
or services to be provided to other departments or other governmental units on a
cost-reimbursement basis are accounted for by internal service funds
Internal service funds recognize revenues and expenses on the accrual basis
They account for fixed assets used in their operations and for long-term debt to be
serviced from revenues generated from their operations, as well as for all current
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assets and current liabilities Net assets (fund equity) are to be reported in three
categories: (1) invested in capital assets, net of related debt; (2) restricted; and
(3) unrestricted
Establishment and Operation of Internal Service Funds
The establishment of an internal service fund is normally subject to legislative
approval The original allocation of resources to the fund may be derived from a
transfer of assets of another fund, such as the General Fund or an enterprise fund,
intended as a transfer not to be repaid or as a loan that is in the nature of a
long-term advance to be repaid by the internal service fund over a period of years
Because internal service funds are established to improve the management of
resources, they should be operated and accounted for on a business basis For example,
assume that administrators request the establishment of a fund for the purchasing,
warehousing, and issuing of supplies used by a number of funds and departments
A budget should be prepared for the internal service fund (but not recorded in the
accounts) to demonstrate that fund management has realistic plans to generate
suf-ficient revenues to cover the cost of goods issued and such other expenses, including
depreciation, that the governing body intends fund operations to recover
Departments and units expected to purchase goods and services from internal
service funds should include in their budgets the anticipated outlays for goods
and services During the year, as supplies are issued or services are rendered, the
internal service fund records operating revenues (Charges for Services is an account
title commonly used instead of Sales) Since the customer is another department
of the government, a journal entry to record the purchase is recorded at the same
time the internal service fund records revenue If the other fund is a governmental
fund, the purchase is recorded as an expenditure Periodically and at year-end, an
operating statement should be prepared for each internal service fund to compare
revenues and related expenses; these operating statements, called Statements of
Revenues, Expenses, and Changes in Fund Net Assets, are similar to income
state-ments prepared for investor-owned businesses
Illustrative Case—Supplies Fund
Assume that the administrators of the Village of Elizabeth obtain approval from
the Village Council in early 2012 to centralize the purchasing, storing, and issuing
functions and to administer and account for these functions in a Supplies Fund A
payment of $596,000 cash is made from the General Fund which is not to be repaid
by the Supplies Fund Of the $596,000, $290,000 is to finance capital acquisitions
and $306,000 is to finance noncapital acquisitions Additionally, a long-term
ad-vance of $200,000 is made from the Water Utility Fund for the purpose of acquiring
capital assets The advance is to be repaid in 20 equal annual installments, with no
interest The receipt of the transfer in and the liability to the Water Utility Fund
would be recorded in the Supplies Fund accounts in the following manner 1
1 The corresponding entry in the General Fund is entry 22 in Chapter 4 The corresponding entry in the
Water Utility Fund is entry 5 in the “Illustrative Case—Water Utility Fund” section later in this chapter.
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1 Cash 796,000
Transfers In 596,000
Advance from Water Utility Fund 200,000
To provide some revenue on funds not needed currently, $50,000 is invested in
marketable securities:
2 Investments 50,000
Cash 50,000
Assume that early in 2012, a satisfactory warehouse building is purchased for
$350,000; $80,000 of the purchase price is considered as the cost of the land
Nec-essary warehouse machinery and equipment is purchased for $100,000 Delivery
equipment is purchased for $40,000 If the purchases are made for cash, the
acquisi-tion of the assets would be recorded in the books of the Supplies Fund as follows:
Supplies are ordered to maintain inventories at a level commensurate with
expected usage No entry is needed because proprietary funds are not required to
record encumbrances During 2012, it is assumed that supplies are received and
related invoices are approved for payment in the amount of $523,500; the entry
needed to record the asset and the liability is as follows:
4 Inventory of Supplies 523,500
Accounts Payable 523,500
The Supplies Fund, accounts for its inventories on the perpetual inventory basis
because the information is needed for proper performance of its primary function
Accordingly, when supplies are issued, the Inventory Account must be credited for
the cost of the supplies issued Because the using fund will be charged an amount
in excess of the inventory carrying value, the Receivable and Revenue accounts
reflect the selling price The markup above cost should be determined on the basis
of budgeted expenses and other items to be financed from net income If the budget
for the Village of Elizabeth’s Supplies Fund indicates that a markup of 30 percent
on cost is needed, issues to General Fund departments of supplies costing $290,000
would be recorded by the following entries:
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5a Operating Expenses—Cost of Sales and Services 290,000
Inventory of Supplies 290,000 5b Due from General Fund 377,000
Operating Revenues—Charges for Sales and Services ($290,000 * 130%) 377,000
During the year, it is assumed that purchasing expenses totaling $19,000,
warehousing expenses totaling $12,000, delivery expenses totaling $13,000, and
administrative expenses totaling $11,000 are incurred The government has chosen
to separate operating expenses into three categories: (1) costs of sales and services,
(2) administration, and (3) depreciation If all liabilities are vouchered before
pay-ment, the entry would be as follows:
6 Operating Expenses—Costs of Sales and Services 44,000
Operating Expenses—Administration 11,000
Accounts Payable 55,000
If collections from the General Fund during 2012 total $322,000, the entry
would be as follows (see Chapter 4, entries 20a and 20b for General Fund entries
corresponding to entries 5b and 7):
7 Cash 322,000
Due from General Fund 322,000
Assuming that payment of vouchers during the year totals the $567,500, the
following entry is made:
8 Accounts Payable 567,500
Cash 567,500
The advance from the Water Utility Fund is to be repaid in 20 equal annual
installments; repayment of one installment at the end of 2012 is recorded as follows:
9 Advance from Water Utility Fund 10,000
Cash 10,000
At the time depreciable assets are acquired, the warehouse building has an estimated
useful life of 20 years; the warehouse machinery and equipment have an estimated
use-ful life of 10 years; the delivery equipment has an estimated useuse-ful life of 10 years; and
none of the assets is expected to have any salvage value at the expiration of its useful life
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Under these assumptions, straight-line depreciation of the building would be $13,500 per
year; depreciation of machinery and equipment, $10,000 per year; and depreciation of
delivery equipment, $4,000 per year (Since governmental units are not subject to income
taxes, there is no incentive to use any depreciation method other than straight-line.)
Organizations that keep perpetual inventory records must adjust the records
periodically to reflect shortages, overages, and out-of-condition stock disclosed by
physical inventories Adjustments to the Inventory account are also considered to be
adjustments to the warehousing expenses of the period In this illustrative case, it is
assumed that no adjustments are found to be necessary at year-end
Interest income is earned and received in cash on the investments purchased at
the beginning of the year:
11 Cash 3,000
Nonoperating Revenues—Interest 3,000
Assuming that all revenues, expenses, and transfers applicable to 2012 have been
properly recorded by the entries illustrated, the nominal accounts should be closed
Recall that the net position of governmental funds is termed Fund Balance and
is classified within five categories In contrast, the excess of assets over liabilities of
proprietary funds is termed Net Assets and classified within three categories:
Net Assets Invested in Capital Assets, Net of Related Debt
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Net Assets Invested in Capital Assets, Net of Related Debt is computed
as capital assets less accumulated depreciation minus the balance of any debt
associated with the acquisition of capital assets Restricted Net Assets are defined
as net resources whose use is restricted by external parties (creditors, grantors, or
other governments) or by internally imposed laws Unrestricted Net Assets is the
residual account for any net resources that are not classified in either of the other two
categories For the Village of Elizabeth example, the net asset balances to be reported
in the December 31, 2012, Statement of Net Assets are calculated as follows:
Invested in Capital Assets, Net of Debt Restricted Unrestricted Total
Invested in Capital Assets Net of Debt
Capital Assets
Less Accumulated Depreciation
Less Advance to Enterprise Fund
Restricted
Unrestricted (plug)
Total Net Assets
$ 490,000 (27,500) (190,000)
$ 272,500
-0-
-0-$331,000
$331,000
$ 490,000 (27,500) (190,000) -0- 331,000
$ 603,500
The category Invested in Capital Assets, Net of Related Debt is calculated
using end of period balances in capital assets, accumulated depreciation, and debt
Borrowings for operations (if any) would not be subtracted here In most cases,
internal service funds will not have Restricted Net Assets Unrestricted Net Assets
is the residual balance calculated after the other two categories Similar to fund
balances, some governments choose to allocate these amounts to individual net asset
accounts through journal entry Our approach will be to determine the components
of net assets in the aforementioned manner and present the totals directly in the
Statement of Net Assets In this way we reduce the number of accounts necessary to
record changes in overall fund net position These amounts appear only in the
State-ment of Net Assets (Illustration 6–3, presented later in the chapter) In addition to
the Statement of Net Assets, internal service funds report a Statement of Revenues,
Expenses, and Changes in Fund Net Assets (Illustration 6–4) and a Statement of
Cash Flows (Illustration 6–5)
OTHER ISSUES INVOLVING INTERNAL SERVICE FUNDS
Risk Management Activities
In recent years, governments have been turning to self-insurance for part or all of
their risk financing activities If a government decides to use a single fund to
accu-mulate funds and make payments for claims, it must use either the General Fund or
an internal service fund Many use the internal service fund type
When using internal service self-insurance funds, interfund premiums are
treated as interfund services provided and used Thus, revenues are recognized in
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the internal service fund for interfund charges, and an expenditure or expense, as
appropriate, is recognized in the contributing fund When claims are paid or
ac-crued, an operating expense is recorded in the internal service fund
Charges should be based on anticipated claims or on a long-range plan to break
even over time, such as an actuarial method Payments by contributing funds in
excess of the amount required to break even are recorded as transfers If an internal
service fund has a material deficit at year-end, that deficit should be made up over
a reasonable period of time and should be disclosed in the notes to the financial
statements
Implications for Other Funds
The operation of internal service funds has important implications for other funds
As we have seen, charges for services (i.e., revenues) of the internal service fund
are recorded as expenditures in the governmental fund purchasing the services
(or expenses if enterprise funds are the purchaser) Since the internal service fund
records the costs of providing services as operating expenses, the costs of these
ser-vices are recorded in two funds in the same set of fund-basis financial statements
Additional problems arise if the internal service fund has significant positive
(or negative) operating income Operating income is the excess of service revenues
over the costs of providing the service (i.e., operating expenses) Consider the case
of an internal service fund servicing police, fire, and other vehicles used in
depart-ments reported in the General Fund If the internal service fund has positive
operat-ing income, the expenditures reported in the General Fund exceed the true cost of
operating the government If these amounts are significant over periods of time,
some of the accumulated surplus (fund balance) of the General Fund is effectively
shifted to the internal service fund (net assets) The opposite is true if internal
ser-vice funds have negative operating income: the General Fund understates the true
cost of operating the government and net assets are effectively shifted from the
internal service fund to the fund balance of the General Fund
Compounding these problems is the fact that GASB Standards do not require
the use of internal service funds Some governments choose to use internal
ser-vice funds and others choose to account for the same activities in other funds This
makes comparisons between governments difficult The problems that internal
ser-vice funds create in the fund-basis financial statements were a major consideration
when the GASB designed the government-wide financial statements As we will
see in detail in Chapter 8, the problems of duplicate recording of costs, potential
over- or understatement of governmental expenditures, and lack of comparability
between governments are resolved in the government-wide financial statements
ENTERPRISE FUNDS
Enterprise funds are used by governments to account for services provided to the
general public on a user-charge basis Under GASB Statement 34, enterprise funds
must be used in the following circumstances:
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When a government has a policy to establish fees and charges to cover the cost
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of providing services for an activity
The most common examples of governmental enterprises are public utilities,
notably water and sewer utilities Electric and gas utilities, transportation systems,
airports, landfills, hospitals, toll bridges, municipal golf courses, parking lots,
park-ing garages, lotteries, municipal sports stadiums, and public houspark-ing projects are
other examples
Enterprise funds are to be reported using the economic resources measurement
focus and accrual basis of accounting Fixed assets and long-term debt are included
in the accounts As indicated earlier in this chapter, enterprise funds are to use
accounting and reporting standards provided for business enterprises issued on or
before November 30, 1989 (unless that guidance conflicts with GASB guidance)
and may use standards issued by the FASB for businesses issued after that date As
a result, accounting is similar to that for business enterprises and includes
deprecia-tion, accrual of interest payable, amortization of discounts and premiums on debt,
and so on
Governmental enterprises often issue debt, called revenue bonds, that is
pay-able solely from the revenues of the enterprise These bonds are recorded directly
in the accounts of the enterprise fund On the other hand, general obligation
bonds are sometimes issued for governmental enterprises, in order to provide
greater security by pledging the full faith and credit of the government in addition
to enterprise revenues If payment is to be paid from enterprise revenues, these
gen-eral obligation bonds would also be reflected in the accounts of enterprise funds
Budgetary accounts are used only if required by law Debt service and
construc-tion activities of a governmental enterprise are accounted for within an enterprise
fund, rather than by separate debt service and capital project funds Thus, the
re-ports of enterprise funds are self-contained; and creditors, legislators, or the general
public can evaluate the performance of a governmental enterprise by the same
crite-ria used to evaluate commercial businesses in the same industry
Unlike internal service funds, it is frequently desirable for enterprise funds to
operate at a profit (increase in net assets) Like commercial businesses, operating
profits are necessary to establish adequate working capital, provide for expansion
of physical facilities, and retire debt Additionally, governments may find it
desir-able to use enterprise fund profits to support general government expenditures that
would otherwise require increased taxes State lotteries, for example, are
estab-lished with the intent to operate at significant profits The profits are then typically
transferred from the lottery (enterprise fund) to the state General Fund in support
of public education
By far the most numerous and important enterprise services rendered by local
governments are public utilities In this chapter we examine typical transactions of
a water utility fund
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Illustrative Case—Water Utility Fund
It is assumed that the Village of Elizabeth is located in a state that permits enterprise
funds to operate without formal legal approval of their budgets Accordingly, the
budget is not recorded in enterprise accounts
Assume that as of December 31, 2011, the accountants for the Village of
Elizabeth prepared the postclosing trial balance shown here:
VILLAGE OF ELIZABETH Water Utility Fund Postclosing Trial Balance December 31, 2011
It is common for governmental enterprises, especially utilities, to report “restricted
assets.” In this example, the restricted assets include $55,000 set aside for future
debt service payments as required by a revenue bond indenture agreement
When utility customers are billed during the year, appropriate revenue
ac-counts are credited Assuming that during 2012 the total bills to nongovernmental
customers amounted to $975,300, bills to the Village of Elizabeth General Fund
amounted to $80,000, and all revenue was from sales of water, the following entry
summarizes the results: (see entry 19 in Chapter 4 for the corresponding entry in
the General Fund)
1 Customer Accounts Receivable 975,300
Due from General Fund 80,000
Operating Revenues—Charges for Sales and Services 1,055,300
Assume collections from nongovernmental customers totaled $968,500 for water
billings:
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2 Cash 968,500
Customer Accounts Receivable 968,500
Customers owing bills totaling $1,980 left the Village and could not be located
The unpaid balances of their accounts receivable were written off to the allowance
for uncollectible accounts as follows:
3 Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts 1,980
Customer Accounts Receivable 1,980
Governments commonly impose impact fees on developers or builders to pay for
capital improvements, such as increased water and sewer facilities, that are
neces-sary to service new developments Increasingly, governments are using impact fees
to limit sprawl and to create incentives for developers to refurbish existing
commer-cial properties rather than create new ones Assume the Village of Elizabeth imposes
impact fees on commercial developers in the amount of $12,500 and that these fees
are not associated with specific projects or improvements
4 Cash 12,500
Capital Contributions 12,500
Note that Capital Contributions is a nominal account that will increase Net Assets
but is reported separately in the Statement of Revenues, Expenses, and Changes in
Fund Net Assets (see Illustration 6–4) Hook up fees for new customers are not
capital contributions but are exchange transactions and are included in operating
revenues If the impact fees had been restricted to a specific project, the cash would
have been reported as a restricted asset
During 2012, the Village of Elizabeth established a Supplies Fund, and the Water
Utility Fund advanced $200,000 to the Supplies Fund as a long-term receivable
The entry by the Supplies Fund is illustrated in entry 1 in the “Illustrative Case—
Supplies Fund” section of this chapter The following entry should be made by the
Water Utility Fund:
5 Long-Term Advance to Supplies Fund 200,000
Cash 200,000
Materials and supplies in the amount of $291,500 were purchased during the year
by the Water Utility Fund, and vouchers in that amount were recorded as a liability:
6 Materials and Supplies 291,500
Accounts Payable 291,500
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When materials and supplies are issued to the departments of the Water Utility
Fund, operating expenses are charged for the cost of materials and supplies
Materi-als and supplies issued for use for construction projects are capitalized temporarily
as Construction Work in Progress (Entry 11 illustrates the entry required when a
capital project is completed.)
7 Operating Expenses—Costs of Sales and Services 110,400
Operating Expenses—Administration 60,000
Construction Work in Progress 127,600
Materials and Supplies 298,000
Payrolls for the year were chargeable to the accounts in the following entry
Taxes were accrued and withheld in the amount of $90,200, and the remainder was
paid in cash
8 Operating Expenses—Costs of Sales and Services 253,600
Operating Expenses—Administration 92,900
Operating Expenses—Selling 17,200
Construction Work in Progress 58,900
Payroll Taxes Payable 90,200
Cash 332,400
Bond interest in the amount of $189,000 was paid:
9 Nonoperating Expenses—Interest 189,000
Cash 189,000
Included in the amount above was bond interest in the amount of $17,800 that
was considered to be properly charged to construction:
10 Construction Work in Progress 17,800
Nonoperating Expenses—Interest 17,800
Construction projects on which costs totaled $529,300 were completed and the
assets placed in service Utility Plant in Service summarizes the investment in fixed
assets used for utility purposes
11 Utility Plant in Service 529,300
Construction Work in Progress 529,300
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Supplies Fund as partial payment of the long-term advance (see Supplies Fund,
entry 9)
13 Cash 10,000
Long-Term Advance to Supplies Fund 10,000
During the year, the Water Utility Fund made a transfer of $200,000 to the Fire
Station Addition Capital Projects Fund (see entries 2 and 7 in Chapter 5):
Accumulated Depreciation of Utility Plant 122,800
Provision is made for bad debts from utility customers Consistent with guidance
provided by a Question and Answer Guide issued by GASB, the bad debt provision
is a revenue reduction not an expense:
16 Operating Revenues—Charges for Sales and Services 2,200
Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts 2,200
Following a provision in the revenue bond indenture, $55,000 was transferred
from operating cash to the Restricted Assets category
17 Restricted Assets 55,000
Cash 55,000
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Illustration 6–2 presents the general ledger account balances after posting the
Water Utility Fund journal entries
Revenue, expense, transfers, and capital contributions accounts for the year were
closed to the Net Assets account:
After posting the closing entry, Net Assets has a balance of $1,600,520 ($1,563,020
beginning balance plus $37,500 from the closing entry) The net asset balances to be
reported in the December 31, 2012, Statement of Net Assets are calculated as follows:
Invested in Capital Assets, Net of Debt Restricted Unrestricted Total
Invested in Capital Assets Net of Debt:
Construction Work in Process
Utility Plant in Service
Less Accumulated Depreciation
Less Revenue Bonds Payable
Restricted: Restricted Assets
Unrestricted (plug)
Total Net Assets
$ 143,125 4,654,440 (1,009,300) (2,700,000)
$1,600,520
Note that the capital assets included in Invested in Capital Assets, Net of Related
Debt is comprised of both the Utility Plant in Service and the Construction Work in
Process Restricted Net Assets equals the balance of the Restricted Assets that are
required to be maintained by debt covenant Unrestricted Net Assets is the residual,
computed as total net assets less the balance in the other two net asset categories
($1,600,520 ⫺ 1,088,265 ⫺ 110,000 ⫽ $402,255)
PROPRIETARY FUND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Governments are required to report the following proprietary fund financial
state-ments: (1) Statement of Net Assets (or Balance Sheet), (2) Statement of Revenues,
Expenses, and Changes in Fund Net Assets, and (3) Statement of Cash Flows As was
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Construction Work in Process
73,700 bb 2,700,000 bb 1,563,020 bb
12 275,600 291,500 6 12 81,200 90,200 8 16 2,200 1,055,300 1
89,600 9,000 2,700,000 1,563,020 1,053,100
Cost of Sales & Services
Administrative
Nonoperating Expenses Interest
* bb denotes beginning balance
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true for governmental funds, major enterprise funds are to be presented, along with
columns for nonmajor funds and total enterprise funds, where appropriate On the
other hand, a single column is to include all internal service funds Illustra tions 6–3,
6–4 and 6–5 reflect the proprietary funds statements for the Village of Elizabeth,
which is assumed to have only one enterprise fund and one internal service fund
Statement of Net Assets
The Statement of Net Assets for the proprietary funds for the Village of Elizabeth
is presented as Illustration 6–3 GASB permits either this statement (Assets ⫺
Liabilities ⫽ Net Assets) or a Balance Sheet where Assets ⫽ Liabilities ⫹ Net Assets
GASB requires a classified format, where current assets, noncurrent assets, current
liabilities, and noncurrent liabilities are presented separately Net assets (fund equity
accounts) are segregated into the same three categories used for the
government-wide Statement of Net Assets In the Village of Elizabeth example, the various fixed
asset and accumulated depreciation accounts were combined to present a single net
figure for each fund It was assumed that all long-term debt was for capital assets
Net assets that are restricted are presented separately According to GASB
State-ment 34, restricted net assets are those that are the result of constraints either:
Externally imposed by creditors (such as through debt covenants), grantors,
1
contributors, or laws or regulations of other governments
Imposed by law through constitutional provisions or enabling legislation
2
In the water utility fund of the Village of Elizabeth, it is assumed that the $110,000
was restricted through a bond covenant GASB prohibits the display of designated,
unrestricted net assets
Statement of Revenues, Expenses, and Changes
in Fund Net Assets
The Statement of Revenues, Expenses, and Changes in Fund Net Assets for the
proprietary funds of the Village of Elizabeth is presented as Illustration 6–4 GASB
requires that operating revenues and operating expenses be shown separately from
and prior to nonoperating revenues and expenses Operating income must be
dis-played Operating revenues should be displayed by source Operating expenses may
be reported by function, as shown in Illustration 6–4, or may be reported by object
classification, such as personal services, supplies, travel, and so forth
Capital contributions, extraordinary and special items, and transfers should be
shown separately, after nonoperating revenues and expenses GASB requires the
all-inclusive format, which reconciles to the ending net assets Note that the ending
net asset figure shown in Illustration 6–4 is the same as the total net assets shown in
the Statement of Net Assets (Illustration 6–3)
Statement of Cash Flows
The Statement of Cash Flows for the proprietary funds for the Village of Elizabeth
is presented as Illustration 6–5 Note that the figure for cash and cash equivalents
includes the restricted assets, as is customary in practice From Illustration 6–3,