Prepare the necessary entries to close the general fund

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The City of Martinville had the following pre-closing account balances in its General Fund as of June 30, 2012. Debits and credits are not separated; each account had its "normal" balance. Among the expenditures that are recorded this year is an amount that has been expended on supplies ordered at the end of the previous year. Assume that the encumbrances do not lapse and that the city failed to make the proper journal entry or entries necessary to re-establish the encumbrance in the current year.

Pre-closing Trial Balance of the City of Martinville as of June 30, 2012:

Cash                                $80,000

Estimated Revenues                    6,300,000

Revenues                            6,380,000

Appropriations                       5,890,000

Estimated Other Financing Sources             79,000

Estimated Other Financing Uses              320,000

Expenditures                          5,920,000

Taxes Receivable-Delinquent                  45,000

Fund Balance - July 1, 2011                380,000

Vouchers Payable                      140,000

Encumbrances                        280,000

Transfer Out to Debt Service Fund             150,000

Transfer In from Enterprise Fund              100,000

Fund Balance-Reserve for Encumbrances        300,000

Required:

(A) Prepare the necessary entries to close the General Fund of the City of Martinville.

(B) Prepare a Statement of Revenues, Expenditures, and Changes in Fund Balance for the City of Martinville for the year ended June 30, 2012. Please make sure you end with the Fund Balance for the year ending June 30, 2012.

Prepare entries in general journal form to record the following transactions in General Fund general ledger accounts for the fiscal year 2012. Please use the modified accrual accounting approach in recording the transactions.

a. The legal budget for the provided for $6,530,000 of estimated revenues and $5,975,000 of appropriations.

b. Assume that are $340,000 of purchase orders outstanding at the end of last fiscal year and these purchase orders will be honored in the current year. Prepare the entries to re-establish the encumbrance.

c. Property taxes were levied in the amount of $4,650,000. It is estimated that 3.5 percent of the taxes will not be collected.

d. Purchase orders were issued for equipment and supplies in the amount of $2,760,000.

Supplies that were relating to all of the prior year purchase orders ($ 340,000) were received along with invoices amounting to $336,800.

Collections of current property taxes amounted to $4,190,000. The uncollected taxes were recorded as delinquent.

Reference no: EM13339691

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