On January 1,2024, the first day of its fiscal year, Carter City received notification that...

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On January 1,2024, the first day of its fiscal year, Carter City received notification that a federal grant in the amount of $580,000 was approved. The grant was restricted for the payment of wages to teenagers for summer employment. The terms of the grant permitted reimbursement only after qualified expenditures have been made; the grant could be used over a two-year period. The following data pertain to operations of the Summer Employment Grant Fund, a special revenue fund of Carter City, during the year ended December 31,2024:Exercise 4-7(Algo)
The following transactions relate to the General Fund of the City of Buffalo Falls for the year ended December 31,2024:
Beginning balances were: Cash, $96,000; Taxes Recelvable, $194,000; Accounts Payable, $54,500; and Fund Balance,
$235,500.
The budget was passed. Estimated revenues amounted to $1,260,000 and appropriations totaled $1,256,800. All
expenditures are classlfied as General Government.
Property taxes were levied in the amount of $930,000. All of the taxes are expected to be collected before February
Cash recelpts totaled $900,000 for property taxes and $305,000 from other revenue.
Contracts were issued for contracted services in the amount of $100,500.
Contracted services were performed relating to $90,000 of the contracts with invoices amounting to $87,800.
Other expenditures amounted to $977,000.
Accounts payable were pald in the amount of $1,115,000.
The books were closed.
Requlred:
a. Prepare journal entries for the above transactions.
b. Prepare a Statement of Revenues, Expenditures, and Changes in Fund Balance for the General Fund.
c. Prepare a Balance Sheet for the General Fund assuming there are no restricted or assigned net resources and
outstanding encumbrances are committed by contractual obligation.
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Prepare journal entries for the above transactions.
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The budget was recorded. It provided for Estimated Revenues for the year in the amount of $290,000, and for Appropriations in the amount of $290,000.
A temporary loan of $290,000 was received from the General Fund.
During the year, teenagers earned and were paid $278,200 under the terms of the Summer Employment program. An additional $9,000 is accrued as payable on December 31. Recognize the receivable and revenue (including the $9,000 of wages payable).
Each month a properly documented request for reimbursement was sent to the federal government; checks for $283,000 were received.
$256,200 was repaid to the General Fund.
Necessary closing entries were made.
Required:
Prepare journal entries for the year ended December 31 in the accounts of the Summer Employment Grant Fund.
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