Sarasota County, Florida Notes to Financial Statements September 30, 2022 W. IMPLEMENTATION OF GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS STATEMENTS The County implemented the following GASB Statements during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2022: (1) Statement No. 87. "Leases", outlines new guidance in order to better meet the information needs of financial statement users by improving accounting and financial reporting for leases by governments. The Statement increases the usefulness of governments' financial statements by requiring recognition of certain lease assets and liabilities for leases that were classified as operating leases and recognized as inflows of resources or outflows of resources based on the payment provisions of the contract. It establishes a single model for lease accounting based on the foundational principle that leases are financings of the right to use an underlying asset. Under this Statement, a lessee is required to recognize a lease liability and an intangible right-to-use lease asset, and a lessor is required to recognize a lease receivable and a deferred inflow of resources, thereby enhancing the relevance and consistency of information about governments' leasing activities. This statement was fully implemented for fiscal year 2022 and Note 6 has additional details. The County implemented the standard prospectively using facts and circumstances that existed prior to this current fiscal year. (2) Statement No. 99, "Omnibus 2022", enhances comparability in accounting and financial reporting and improves the consistency of authoritative literature by addressing (1) practice issues that have been identified during implementation and application of certain GASB Statements and (2) accounting and financial reporting for financial guarantees. GASB Statement No. 99, paragraphs 2632 were effective upon issuance. This statement was fully implemented for fiscal year 2022 and did not have an impact to the County’s financial position or results of operations. X. FUND BALANCE REPORTING AND GOVERNMENTAL FUND-TYPE DEFINITIONS Fund Balances are limited to the governmental funds and are reported in the Governmental fund financial statements in the following classifications: Non Spendable Fund Balance - Amounts that are (a) not in spendable form or (b) legally or contractually required to be maintained intact. Restricted Fund Balance - Amounts that can be spent only for specific purposes stipulated by (a) external resource providers such as creditors (by debt covenants), grantors, contributors, or laws and regulations of other governments; or (b) imposed by law through constitutional provisions or enabling legislation. Committed Fund Balance - Amounts that can be used only for the specific purposes determined by a formal action of the Commissioners, the County’s highest level of decision making authority, with formal action occurring prior to fiscal year-end. Commitments may be changed or lifted only by the Commissioners taking the same formal action (resolution) that imposed the constraint originally. Assigned Fund Balance - Includes spendable fund balance amounts, pursuant to the Financial Reserves Policy Resolution 2022-198, established by the Chief Financial Management Officer or their designee that are intended to be used for specific purposes that are neither considered restricted or committed. Unassigned Fund Balance - Represents the residual surplus fund balance in the general fund in excess of the four components described above (non-spendable, restricted, committed, or assigned balances). Governmental funds, aside from the general fund, are not permitted to carry a positive unassigned fund balance, but may include a deficit balance for situations in which expenditures exceed non spendable, restricted, committed, or assigned fund balances for those specific purposes. The County spends restricted amounts first, when both restricted and unrestricted fund balances are available, unless prohibited by legal documents, grant agreements or contracts. Additionally, the County uses committed fund balance, followed by assigned fund balance and then unassigned fund balance when expenditures are incurred for purposes for which amounts in any of the unrestricted fund balance classifications could be used. 93
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