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200 WordsAPA Formatted References Your new financial accountant has just shown up for work and has settled into her small office. You asked her to join you for lunch and begin your orientation in how...

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Your new financial accountant has just shown up for work and has settled into her small office. You asked her to join you for lunch and begin your orientation in how governmental accounting differs from for-profit financial accounting. She asks you some questions over lunch that you politely answer.

  • Discuss both the meaning of, and the basis for, fund accounting—a major consideration and constraint on governmental accounting procedures and how that compares to financial reporting that is handled with far less constraints in the for-profit sector.
  • Why do you believe fund accounting is so important?

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Discuss both the meaning of, and the basis for, fund accounting—a major consideration and constraint on governmental accounting procedures and how that compares to financial reporting that is handled with far less constraints in the for-profit sector.

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Why do you believe fund accounting is so important?

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Answered Same Day Dec 23, 2021

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Robert answered on Dec 23 2021
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The fund accounting is important because of the following reasons:-
1) It is helpful in the management of government fiscal policies and cash. So, it must be
eintroduced as sub-integral system.
2) It also helps in the analysis of the two system of financial reporting i.e. Global Financial
System (GFS) and Accrual Accounting System (AAS). From the analysis, it is found that the GFS
system is relevant to report Government...
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