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ACCOUNTING STANDARDS UPDATE <br />APPENDIX B <br />GASB No. 24 Accounting and Financial Reporting for Certain Grants and Other <br />Financial Assistance <br />This statement was issued in June, 1994 and establishes standards for accounting and reporting of <br />pass - through grants, food stamps, and on- behalf payments for fringe benefits and salaries. <br />GASB 24 requires all cash pass - through grants received by a governmental entity to be reported in <br />its financial statements. Governments with administrative or direct financial involvement with cash <br />pass - through grants should recognize revenue and expenditures /expenses in the governmental, <br />proprietary or trust funds. Governments with no administrative or direct financial involvement <br />should report these transactions in an agency fund. <br />GASB 24 also requires revenue and expenditures from food stamps to be recorded in the general <br />or special revenue funds. The revenues and expenditures should be recognized when the food <br />stamps are distributed to the individual. <br />Further, GASB 24 clarifies how on- behalf payments for fringe benefits and salaries should be <br />reported. On behalf payments for fringe benefits and salaries are direct payments by one entity to a <br />third -party recipient for employees of another, legally separate entity. Revenue should be recorded <br />at the amount the recipient received. If the employer is legally responsible for the payment, <br />expenditures/expenses should equal the revenue recognized. If the employer is not legally <br />responsible for the payment, it should follow the accounting standards for that type of transaction <br />to recognize expenditure /expense. <br />This statement is effective for financial statements for periods beginning after June 15, 1995. <br />GASB No. 25 Financial Reporting for Defined Benefit Pension Plans and Note, <br />Disclosures for Defined Contribution Plans <br />This statement was issued in November, 1994 and supersedes all previous authoritative guidance <br />on accounting and financial reporting for defined benefit pension plans of state and local <br />government entities. <br />This statement replaces the traditional balance sheet and income statements with two different <br />financial statements: statement of plan net assets which reports the fair value and composition of <br />plan assets, liabilities, and net assets held in trust for pension benefits and statement of changes in <br />plan net assets which reports the principal year -to -year changes. Also required are two <br />supplementary schedules: the schedule of funding progress, which reports, for a minimum of six <br />years, the actuarial value of assets, the actuarial accrued liability and the relationship between the <br />two, and the schedule of employer contributions, which reports the annual required contributions <br />of the employer. <br />GASB 25 also requires defined contribution plans to disclose the plan description, summary of <br />significant accounting policies and if any investments in any one organization represent five percent <br />or more of plan net assets. <br />This Statement is effective for financial statements for periods beginning after June 15, 1996. <br />GASB No. 25 should also be implemented in the same year as GASB No. 26. <br />PREPARED BY TAUTGES, REDPATH & CO., LTD. PAGE 4 OF 5 <br />