1. During a heated campaign for mayor of Morganville, an unsuccessful candidate
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1. During a heated campaign for mayor of Morganville, an unsuccessful candidate boasted that he would %u201Cdo away with all the special interests in government. I will abolish all of the Special Revenue Funds and merge that money with the general operating resources of the city.%u201D You are the successful candidate in that race and now the local press is pressuring you to respond to the campaign promise of that other candidate. How would you respond to the press?
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The newly elected mayor of Wherever noticed that in the recently enacted budget of that city%u2019s General Fund, revenues exceed expenditures by $15,000. Later that year, after a hurricane caused a large amount of damage, she ordered the city%u2019s finance officer to write a check for $15,000, on the General Fund, to an emergency relief fund. Because of the unexpected nature of the hurricane, no appropriation had been made to cover this transaction. When confronted by the press, she pointed out that the General Fund was only required under the balanced budget laws of the state to %u201Cbreak even%u201D and that she could not, in good conscience, allow the city to retain idle monies when people needed help.
From an accounting standpoint, did the mayor do the right thing? From an ethical standpoint?
Answers should be 4-5 sentences and MBA level
Explanation / Answer
What I would say to the press would be something that has been a long standing statement first the candidate must understand a special revenue fund is let me explain "An account established by a government to collect money that must be used for a specific project. Special revenue funds provide an extra level of accountability and transparency to taxpayers that their tax dollars will go toward an intended purpose. Governments must rely on operating and capital budgets to pay for their other expenses." and what this entails is that SRF's which entail funds like road cleaning, Storm drain management, ditch cleaning are important in maintaining a cities sanitary health and with due respect the candidate will just reduce the trasperancy being offered by use of these SRF's of they are merged with general operating resources.
2. A general fund essentially means a fund which covers the resources required for day to day activities thus paying for operative and admistrative expenses and when a budget says balancing a budget it means balancing this fund, therefore keepin the 15000$ excess spending in mind it wasn't a bad idea to write a check in case of natural disaster as it would not have effected the budget as much owing to the excess 15000 present.
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