Question

The City of Wolfe has issued its financial statements for Year 4 (assume that the city uses a calendar year). The city's general fund is made up of two functions: (1) education and (2) parks. The city also utilizes capital projects funds for ongoing construction and an enterprise fund to account for an art museum. It also has one discretely presented component unit. The government-wide financial statements indicated the following Year 4 totals: Education had net expenses of $710,000. Parks had net expenses of $130,000. Art museum had net revenues of $80,000 General revenues were $900,000; the overall increase in net position was $140,000. The fund financial statements issued for Year 4 indicated the following The general fund had an increase of $30,000 in its fund balance The capital projects fund had an increase of $40,000 in its fund balance The enterprise fund had an increase of $60,000 in its net position. Officials for Wolfe define "available" as current financial resources to be paid or collected within 60 days. The city maintains a landfill that has been recorded during the current year within its parks. The landfill generated program revenues of $4,000 in Year 4 and cash expenses of $15,000. It also paid $3,000 cash for a piece of land. These transactions were recorded as would have been anticipated, but no other recording was made this year. The city assumes that it will have to pay $200,000 to clean up the landfill when it is closed in several years. The landfill was 18 percent filled at the end of Year 3 and is 26 percent filled at the end of Year 4. No payments will be necessary for several more years. For convenience, assume that the entries in all previous years were correctly handled regardless of the situation a. The city believes that the landfill was included correctly in all previous years as one of its enterprise funds. According to the information provided, the overall increase in net position reported was $140,000. What is the correct overall change in the net position in the government-wide financial statements? b. The city believes that the landfill was included correctly in all previous years in one of the enterprise funds. According to the information provided, the enterprise fund reported an increase in its net position of $60,000. What is the correct change in the net position of the enterprise fund in the fund financial statements? c. The city believes that the landfill was included correctly in all previous years within the general fund. What is the correct change in the fund balance of the general fund? a. b. c. The correct overall change in net position is The correct overall change in net position is The correct increase in fund balance is

Answer 1