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CITY OF ORONO. MINNESOTA <br />Notes to Financial Statements (continued) <br />December 31. 1994 <br />NOTE 1 - SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED) <br />D.Measurement Focus and Basis of Accounting <br />The accounting and financial reporting treatment applied to a fund is determined by its measurement focus <br />and its basis of accounting. <br />Measurement Focus <br />The measurement focus of a fund determines what the fund measures. <br />All governmental funds and the Expendable Trust Fund are accounted for using a current financial <br />resources measurement fix:us. With this measurement fiKUS, only current a.ssets and current liabilities <br />generally are included on the balance sheet. Operating statements of these funds present increases <br />(revenue and other financing sources) and decreases (expenditures and inher financing uses) in net current <br />assets. <br />Proprietary Funds are accounted for on a flow of economic resources measurement focus. With this <br />measurement fiKUS, all as.sets and liabilities assiKiated with the ope'^ation of these funds are included on <br />the balance sheet. Fund equity (net total assets) is segregated into contributed capital and retained <br />earnings components. Proprietary fund type operating statements present increases (revenues) and <br />decrea.ses (expen.ses) in net total assets. <br />Agency Funds are custodial in nature (assets equal liabilities) and do not involve measurement of re.sults <br />of operations. <br />Fixed assets used in governmental fund type operations and long-term liabilities expected to be financed <br />from governmental funds are accounted for in two account gr*)ups. as they are concerned only with the <br />measurement of financial position, and are not involved with mea.surement of results of operations. <br />Basis of Accounting <br />A fund\s basis of accounting determines when a transaction or event is recognized in the fund’s operating <br />statement. <br />The modified accrual basis of accounting is used by all governmental fund types. Expendable Trust <br />Funds, and Agency Funds. Under this basis of accounting, transactiims are recorded in the following <br />manner: <br />-32-