Lincoln County Uses Encumbrance Accounting to Control Expenditures

Multiple Choice

Lincoln County uses encumbrance accounting to control expenditures. It charges the cost of outstanding purchase commitments to expenditures in the year they are ordered, not in the year they are received. If the county had $7,000 of purchase commitments outstanding at the end of Year 1 and received those goods during Year 2 at a cost of $7,800, what would be the impact on total fund balance for Year 2?

A) Total fund balance at the end of Year 2 would be $7,800 less than at the end of Year 1.
B) Total fund balance at the end of Year 2 would be $800 less than at the end of Year 1.
C) Total fund balance at the end of Year 2 would be $800 greater than at the end of Year 1.
D) Total fund balance at the end of Year 2 would be the same as it was at the end of Year 1