The counterpart to liabilities.
What are assets?
This Federal Agency collects taxes
What is the IRS?
This is a type of capital asset.
What are buildings, bridges, equipment, vehicles, etc.?
This type of government is best at raising revenue.
What is the Federal Government?
This is why audits are performed.
What is honesty, fiscal health, weak points, or fraud?
The type of accounting where transactions are recorded when they occur, regardless of cash exchanges.
What is accrual accounting?
This is the act of buying and acquiring resources
What is "Procurement"?
This is a separate budget used to plan for capital assets
What is a Capital Budget/Capital Investment Plan?
This is the main way local municipalities finance capital assets.
What are bonds?
Risk management is the duty of this office.
What is the duty of the OMB/Budget Office during Execution and Auditing?
The most liquid form of an asset
What is cash?
Detailed language in bills to ensure agencies operate according to Congress' wishes.
What is legislative intent?
These are the larger effects of capital assets, either intended or not.
What are externalities?
Minimum wage increases are a type of this.
What are mandates?
This is a type of governmental fund.
What are Governmental, Proprietary, or Fiduciary Funds?
What are Generally Accepted Accounting Principles?
This is a way the OMB reconstructs federal agencies
What is reorganizing, downsizing, privatizing, outsourcing?
The annual liability in an operating budget for capital assets.
What is depreciation cost?
This is one aspect of a typical grant.
What is the purpose, amount, the recipient, or the distribution method?
These funds are more business-like in nature.
What are proprietary funds?
This is the basic accounting formula
What is assets = liabilities + fund balance?
The equation to calculate the future value of money.
What is ?
The amount where an asset is considered a "capital" asset.
What is decided internally by each organization and has no official guidelines?
A historical form of Federal aid to states that was simply giving states a percentage of federal income.
What is Revenue Sharing?
These are financial standards the public sector must adhere to.
What are the Governmental Accounting, Auditing, and Financial Reporting (GAAFR) guidelines?