Comprehensive General Fund Review
The Wayne City Council approved and adopted its general fundbudget for 2020. The budget contained the following amounts:
Estimated revenues | $70,000,000 |
Appropriations | 66,000,000 |
Estimated transfers in | 1,000,000 |
Estimated transfers out | 6,000,000 |
During 2020, various transactions and events occurred whichaffected the general fund. The legal budgetary basis is used.
Required
For items 1–40, indicate whether the item should be debited (D),credited (C), or is not affected (N) in the general fund.
a. Items 1–5 involve recording the adopted budget
1. | Estimated revenues | Answer |
2. | Fund balance—unassigned | Answer |
3. | Appropriations | Answer |
4. | Estimated other financing sources | Answer |
5. | Expenditures | Answer |
b. Items 6–10 involve recording the 2020 property tax levy. Itwas estimated that $500,000 would be uncollectible.
6. | Property taxes receivable | Answer |
7. | Bad debt expense | Answer |
8. | Allowance for uncollectibles | Answer |
9. | Revenues | Answer |
10. | Estimated revenues | Answer |
c. Items 11–15 involve recording encumbrances at the timepurchase orders are issued.
12. | Fund balance—assigned | Answer |
13. | Expenditures | Answer |
14. | Accounts payable | Answer |
15. | Purchases | Answer |
d. Items 16–20 involve recording expenditures that had beenpreviously encumbered in the current year.
17. | Fund balance—assigned | Answer |
18. | Expenditures | Answer |
19. | Accounts payable | Answer |
20. | Fund balance—unassigned | Answer |
e. Items 21–25 involve recording the transfer made to theLibrary debt service fund. No previous entries were made regardingthis transaction.
21. | Fund balance—assigned | Answer |
22. | Due from Library debt servicefund | Answer |
23. | Cash | Answer |
24. | Other financing uses | Answer |
25. | Encumbrances | Answer |
f. Items 26–40 involve recording the closing entries (other thanencumbrances) for 2020.
26. | Estimated revenues | Answer |
27. | Due to special revenue fund | Answer |
28. | Appropriations | Answer |
29. | Estimated other financing uses | Answer |
30. | Expenditures | Answer |
31. | Revenues | Answer |
32. | Other financing uses | Answer |
33. | Bonds payable | Answer |
34. | Bad debt expense | Answer |
35. | Depreciation expense | Answer |
36. | Fund balance—assigned | Answer |
37. | Encumbrances | Answer |
38. | Transfers out | Answer |
39. | Due from enterprise fund | Answer |
40. | Deferred inflows of resources | Answer |