Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Introducing City of Smithville
Welcome………………………………………………………. 4
System Requirements 4
Licensing 4
Running or Removing City of Smithville
Running the City of Smithville 5
Removing the City of Smithville 5
General Operating Instructions Opening the City of Smithville 5 Creating a new project 6
Opening an existing project 6
Saving the current project 6
City of Smithville Main Window Adding and posting journal entries 8 Editing/deleting/unposting journal entries 8 Working with the ledgers screen 9 Working with the detail journal screen 11
Printing Reports 12
Exporting Trial Balances 12
Completing Chapters 2 through 10 and Chapter 12 of the City of Smithville Cumulative Problem 13
Chapter 2 Opening the Books 14
Chapter 3 Recording the Annual Budget 18
Chapter 4 Recording Operating Transactions Affecting the General Fund and Governmental Activities at the
Government-wide Level 20
Chapter 5 Recording Capital Asset Transactions 27
Chapter 6 Transactions Affecting General Long-term
Liabilities and Debt Service 32
Chapter 7 Recording Transactions Affecting the
Enterprise Fund and Business-type Activities 37
Chapter 8 Recording Transactions Affecting a
Fiduciary Fund—An Investment Trust Fund 40
Chapter 9 Adjusting and Closing Entries for
Governmental Activities, Government-wide Level;
Preparation of Government-wide and Major Fund
Financial Statements 43
Chapter 10 Analysis of Financial Condition 45
Chapter 12 Preparation of Audit Report 45
Appendix A 46
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCING CITY OF SMITHVILLE
Welcome
Thank you for purchasing the City of Smithville Government Accounting Software. This software is designed to be used with the McGraw-Hill/Irwin textbook Accounting for Governmental and Nonprofit Entities, 15th edition, ISBN 0073100951.
System Requirements
To use the City of Smithville accounting software application, you must have the following:
• Operating