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Accounting For Interfund Transfers Of State And Local Government Units; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 1977, Jan. 14, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting Standards Executive Committee

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Chapter 2 of the AICPA Industry Audit Guide,, Audits of State and Local Governmental Units, includes accounting guidelines for four categories of interfund transfers. The first category includes transactions that would be treated as revenues or expenditures had they been conducted with outsiders. These transfers are accounted for as revenues of the recipient fund and expenditures of the disbursing fund. The second category includes reimbursements of expenditures made by one fund for another. The reimbursement reduces the expenditures of the recipient fund. The third category includes recurring annual transfers between two or more budgetary funds and shifts resources from a …