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Financial Reporting Model And Internal Service Funds

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According to governmental financial reporting model, internal service funds are one of the proprietary funds, and investment trust funds belong to fiduciary funds. There are many types of activities, which are accounted for in an internal service funds. This paper addresses the type of activities in an internal service funds, non-expendable endowment funds reported on a full accrual basis, and how it is important that depreciation be charged on capital assets held as fiduciary investment funds.
The Activities that are Internal Service Funds Used to Account Internal service funds are established to finance, administer, and account for department or agencies of a government whose exclusive or nearly exclusive purpose is to provide goods or services to the government’s other departments on a cost-reimbursement basis (Granof & Khumawala, 2013). Internal service fund are intend to promote efficiency in the acquisition, distribution, use of goods and services, and internal service funds are means of allocating the costs of functions and activities to the departments that are the ultimate beneficiaries. According to Statement No. 34, it permits governments to establish internal service funds to report any activity that provides goods or services to the other funds, departments, or agencies of the primary government and its components units, or to other governments, on a cost-reimbursement basis (Granof & Khumawala, 2013). It is better for a government to account in its general

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