A) Internal service funds use the economic resources measurement focus and accrual basis of accounting. B) Examples of internal service funds would include self-insurance funds, motor pool funds, and print shop funds.
An example of an activity that would not normally be accounted for in an enterprise fund would be: A) Swimming pool. B) Motor pool. C) Airport. D) Lottery. B) Statement of Revenues, Expenses and Changes in Net Assets, Statement of Net Assets and Statement of Cash Flows
An internal service fund provided services to a General Fund department. At the time of billing, the credit entry in the internal service fund would be: A) Other Financing Sources—Transfers In. B) Operating Revenues—Charges for Services. C) Other Financing Sources—Charges for Services.
C) In the basic financial statements, internal service funds are reported in the proprietary funds financial statements. D) None of the above; all are true. Answer: A
Examples would be purchasing services, printing services, repair garages, janitorial services and risk management activities.
Feedback: Printing services would be accounted for in an internal service fund because it would be providing services to other government departments.
Feedback: The categories of Net Position for a proprietary fund are Net Investment in Capital Assets, Restricted Net Position and Unrestricted Net Position.
Feedback: The required statements for proprietary funds include the Statement of Net Position, Statement of Revenues, Expenses, and Changes in Fund Net Position, and the Statement of Cash Flows.
C) Are not required to accrue interest due more than 30 days after the end of the fiscal year.
Feedback: According to GASB Statement 34, enterprise funds must be used when certain criteria are met. They are (1) When debt is backed solely by fees and charges. (2) When a legal requirement exists that the cost of providing services for an activity, including capital costs, be recovered though fees or charges.
A) Are required to present budget-actual statements in the fund statements.
A) Enterprise funds are used by governments to account for services provided to the general public on a user-charge basis.
C) Are not required to accrue interest due more than 30 days after the end of the fiscal year.
C) The purpose of recording post-closure expenses and liabilities is to match the estimated costs with the revenues during the period of time the waste is accepted.
A) Are required to present budget-actual statements in the fund statements.
D) The operation of internal service funds has no impact on other funds because it is run as a business and provides services that would have been purchased elsewhere by the other funds.
C) The purchase of a capital asset is recorded as an expenditure in proprietary funds.
A) Internal service funds use modified accrual accounting and the current financial resources measurement focus
C) The purpose of recording post-closure expenses and liabilities is to match the estimated costs with the revenues during the period of time the waste is accepted.
D) The operation of internal service funds has no impact on other funds because it is run as a business and provides services that would have been purchased elsewhere by the other funds.