Question: Rural County is an agricultural community located hundreds of miles from any metropolitan center. The County established a television reception improvement fund to serve the public interest by constructing and operating television translator stations. TV translator stations serve communities that cannot receive the signals of free over-the-air TV stations because they are too far away from a broadcasting TV station. Because of the largest distances between customers, commercial cable TV providers are also not inclined to serve rural communities. The fund charges TV owners a monthly fee of $15. The fund was established on December 20, 2011, with a transfer of cash from the General Fund of $100,000. On December 31, 2011, the fund acquired land for its translator stations in the amount of $40,000.
The remaining cash and the land are the only resources held by the fund at the beginning of 2012.
1. Other than beginning account balances, no entries have been made in the general ledger.
2. The county prepared a budget for 2012 with estimated customer fees of $30,000, operating costs of $30,000, capital costs of $65,000, and estimated loan proceeds of $55,000.
3. The following information was taken from the checkbook for the year ended December-31-2012.
4. The loan from the bank is dated April 1 and is for a five-year period. Interest (8 percent annual rate) is paid on October 1 and April 1 of each year, beginning October 1, 2012. The County has elected not to establish a debt service fund but will pay the interest on this note from the Television Reception Improvement Fund.
5. The machinery was purchased on April 1 with the proceeds provided by the bank loan and has an estimated useful life of 10 years (straight-line basis).
6. In January 2013, customers remitted fees totaling $2,500 for December 2012 service.
7. Supplies of $500 were received on December 29 and paid in January 2013.
8. Unused supplies on hand amounted to $760 at December 31, 2012.
9. Utilities are paid in the following month. The utility bill for December 2012 was received on January 4, 2013 in the amount of $620. (Utility bills are recorded through accounts payable.)
10. On December 21, the company placed an order for a new computerized control switch in the amount of $1,500 to be delivered and paid in January 2013.
Required: You have been asked to provide financial statements for the upcoming County Board meeting for the Television Reception Improvement Fund.
Part 1: Assume the County chooses to report the Television Reception Improvement Fund as a Special Revenue Fund following modified accrual basis statements. Using the Excel template provided,
a. Prepare journal entries recording the events above for the year ending December 31, 2012.
b. Post the journal entries to T-accounts.
c. Prepare closing entries.
d. Prepare a Statement of Revenues, Expenditures, and Changes in Fund Balance.
e. Prepare a Balance Sheet, assuming there are no restricted or committed fund net resources.
Part 2: Assume the County chooses to report the Television Reception Improvement Fund as an Enterprise Fund following accrual basis statements. Using the Excel template provided,
a. Prepare journal entries recording the events above for the year ending December 31, 2012.
b. Post the journal entries to T-accounts.
c. Prepare closing entries.
d. Prepare a Statement of Revenues, Expenses and Changes in Net Assets.
e. Prepare a Statement of Net Assets, assuming the bank note is related to capital asset acquisitions.
The Excel template contains separate tabs for
(1) special revenue fund journal entries and T-accounts,
(2) special revenue fund closing entries,
(3) special revenue fund financial statements,
(4) enterprise fund journal entries and T-accounts,
(5) enterprise fund closing entries, and
(6) enterprise fund financial statements. Both the T-accounts and financial statements contain accounts you will not need under either the modified accrual or accrual bases. Similarly, you may not need to record some of the events, depending on the basis of accounting.