Advanced Accounting 10th Edition by Thomas Schaefer, Joe Ben Hoyle, Timothy Doupnik

Exercise 21

A landfill is scheduled to be filled to capacity gradually over a 10-year period.However, at the end of the first year of operations, the landfill is only 7 percent filled.How much liability for closure and postclosure costs should be recognized on government-wide financial statements How much liability should be recognized on fund financial statements assuming that the landfill is recorded in an enterprise fund How much liability should be recognized on fund financial statements assuming that the landfill is recorded in the General Fund