Question

The budget for the City of Goodville for the year ending December 31 was adopted and recorded on January 2 of the same year. After recording the budget, the accounting records showed a debit balance of $50,000 in the Budgetary Fund Balance account. What does this indicate?

Answer 1

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Explanation:

A budgetary fund is an income account and thus a debit balance suggests a deficit on the fund account. This means that governing bodies of City of Goodville have spent more money in their expenditures than they have brought in as income from the fund. This will be recorded as a liability in the balance sheet. Where as a credit balance would be a surplus and recorded as  an asset.