Question

The following facts relate to questions 1 through 10: The City of Oxford, Mississippi (population just under 24,000) passed a bond issue for $2,500,000, 4.5 percent, semiannual interest, 10 year bonds to finance the construction of a second high school to be called Yoknapatawpha High, named in memory of the Pulitzer Prize winning author, William Faulkner. The State also contributed $110,000 for construction of the gymnasium. The contractor selected then submitted her contract for $2,080,000 to commence on January 2, 2019, with the project’s estimated completion in late 2019.

1. The entry in the Capital Projects Fund receiving the transferred state monies from the General Fund would include a:

A. Credit to Other Financing Sources, $110,000.

B. Debit to Other Financing Uses, $110,000.

C. Credit to Cash, $110,000.

D. Credit to Grants Receivable, $110,000.

2. When the contractor submitted a $700,000 progress billing, the following entry in the Capital Projects Fund would include:

A. Debit to Encumbrances—2019, $700,000

B. Credit to Cash, $700,000.

C. Debit to Encumbrances Outstanding—2019, $700,000.

D. Debit to Construction-work-in progress, $700,000.

3. Assuming the partial billing was approved for payment and the expenditure and liability (contracts payable) was recorded for $700,000; however, Oxford has a policy of not paying 100 percent, but retaining 20 percent as a retained percentage. The entry in the Capital Projects Fund to record the allowed payment and retained percentage would include:

A. Credit to Cash, $560,000.

B. Debit to Contracts Payable, $560,000.

C. Credit to Contracts Payable—Retained Percentage, $560,000.

D. Debit to Contracts Payable, $140,000.

Answer 1

1. The entry in the Capital Projects Fund receiving the transferred state monies from the General Fund would include a:.

B. Debit to Other Financing Uses, $110,000.

2. When the contractor submitted a $700,000 progress billing, the following entry in the Capital Projects Fund would include:

D. Debit to Construction-work-in progress, $700,000.

3. Assuming the partial billing was approved for payment and the expenditure and liability (contracts payable) was recorded for $700,000; however, Oxford has a policy of not paying 100 percent, but retaining 20 percent as a retained percentage. The entry in the Capital Projects Fund to record the allowed payment and retained percentage would include:

A. Credit to Cash, $560,000.