Answer: The budgetary fund balance is $10,000
Explanation: When calculating budgetary fund balance, the best method is given as:
The available fund balance (from previous audit) + current year revenues = Total available funds - expenditures = current year ending fund balance
What we can see from the above expression is that we add the fund from the previous year balance to the current year revenues. This will give us amount of total funds available. Now we will minus the current year expenditures from the total funds available to give us the budgetary fund balance of the current year.
From the question above, we have the following:
Estimated revenues = $700,000
Appropriations (expenditures) = $660,000
Debt service = $30,000
Total expenditures = $660,000 + $30,000 = $690,000
Therefore budgetary fund balance will be:
Estimated revenues - total expenditures
= $700,000 - $690,000
= $10,000
Therefore, the budgetary fund balance is $10,000.
