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Prior Period Adjustments Due to Corrections of Errors – Years Preceding the Prior Year

Prior Period Adjustments Due to Corrections of Errors – Years Preceding the Prior Year. USSGL Board Presentation May 20, 2010. Background.

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Prior Period Adjustments Due to Corrections of Errors – Years Preceding the Prior Year

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  1. Prior Period Adjustments Due to Corrections of Errors – Years Preceding the Prior Year USSGL Board Presentation May 20, 2010

  2. Background • Corrections of Errors, as defined by SFFAS No. 21, Reporting Corrections of Errors and Changes in Accounting Principles, are errors in financial statements that are a result of mathematical mistakes, mistakes in the application of accounting principles, or oversight or misuse of facts that existed at the time the financial statements were prepared. • The Government Accountability Office (GAO), auditors of the Financial Report of the U.S., have advised the Financial Reports Division to make a clear distinction between corrections of errors that occurred in the earliest year presented, in comparison to corrections errors that occurred in years preceding the prior year. • The USSGL Division is proposing three new accounts to capture Corrections of Errors – Years Preceding the Prior Year activity (Effective FY 2011)

  3. Proposed USSGL Accounts • 3105 Unexpended Appropriations – Prior Period Adjustments Due to Corrections of Errors – Years Preceding the Prior Year • 5705 Expended Appropriations – Prior Period Adjustments Due to Corrections of Errors – Years Preceding the Prior Year • 7405 Prior Period Adjustments Due to Corrections of Errors – Years Preceding the Prior Year

  4. 3105 Unexpended Appropriations – Prior Period Adjustment Due to Corrections of Errors – Years Preceding the Prior Year • The amount of net increase or decrease to unexpended appropriations due to errors in years preceding the prior year’s financial statements that resulted from mathematical mistakes, mistakes in the application of accounting principles, or oversight or misuse of facts that existed at the time the financial statements were prepared. (Use only when comparative financial statements are being presented.) • Justification: The Financial Reports Division (producers of the Financial Report of the United States) has requested an account to distinguish between corrections of errors for the prior-year in comparison to corrections of errors in years preceding the prior-year.

  5. 5705 Expended Appropriations – Prior Period Adjustments Due to Corrections of Errors – Years Preceding the Prior Year • The amount of net increase or decrease to expended appropriations due to errors in years preceding the prior year’s financial statements that resulted from mathematical mistakes, mistakes in the application of accounting principles, or oversight or misuse of facts that existed at the time the financial statements were prepared. (Use only when comparative financial statements are being presented.) • Justification: The Financial Reports Division (producers of the Financial Report of the United States) has requested an account to distinguish between corrections of errors for the prior-year in comparison to corrections of errors in years preceding the prior-year.

  6. 7405 Prior Period Adjustments Due to Corrections of Errors – Years Preceding the Prior Year • The amount of adjustments affecting the cumulative results of operations due to errors in years preceding the prior year’s financial statements that resulted from mathematical mistakes, mistakes in the application of accounting principles, or oversight or misuse of facts that existed at the time the financial statements were prepared. (Use only when comparative financial statements are being presented.) • Justification: The Financial Reports Division (producers of the Financial Report of the United States) has requested an account to distinguish between corrections of errors for the prior-year in comparison to corrections of errors in years preceding the prior-year.

  7. Impact on CrosswalksFiscal Year 2011

  8. Additional Information • In addition, GAO has requested that FMS’s Financial Reports Division re-align Treasury Financial Manual (TFM) 2-4700 Appendix 1, Reclassified Statement of Changes in Net Position with the presentation of OMB Circular A136, as illustrated on the next slide

  9. Questions?

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