Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Chapter 1 - budgetary accounting

GASB considers budgetary accounting and reporting to be important. Explain one of the principles outlined by GASB related to budgetary accounting and reporting.

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  1. You must report your annual budget in comparison to your actual results in the financial statements.

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  2. A principle outlined by GASB concerning budgetary accounting includes the accounting system and how it should provide the basis for an appropriate budgetary control.

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  3. Budgets that are passed by legislatures are law; to spend over the budgeted amount is to violate the law.

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  4. The first principle means that individual governmental office should not overspend what the annual budget is given.

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