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FINANCIAL SECTION - School District U-46

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COST EFFECTIVENESS. Cost effectiveness refers to the extent to which<br />

resources allocated to a specific objective under each of several alternatives<br />

actually contribute to accomplishing that objective.<br />

CURRENT ASSETS. Current assets are cash or anything that can be readily<br />

converted into cash.<br />

CURRENT EXPENDITURES PER PUPIL. Current expenditures for a given<br />

period of time divided by a pupil unit of measure.<br />

CURRENT LIABILITIES. Current liabilities are debts which are payable within a<br />

short period of time, usually no longer than one year.<br />

DEBT. An obligation resulting from the borrowing of money or from the purchase<br />

of goods and services. Debts of local education agencies include bonds,<br />

warrants and notes.<br />

DEBT LIMIT. The maximum amount of gross or net debt that is legally<br />

permitted.<br />

DEBT SERVICE. Debt service includes expenditures for the retirement of debt<br />

and expenditures for interest on debt, except principal and interest on current<br />

loans, which are loans payable in the same fiscal year in which the money was<br />

borrowed.<br />

DEFERRED CHARGES. Deferred charges include expenditures which are not<br />

chargeable to the fiscal year in which they are made, but are carried over on the<br />

asset side of the balance sheet pending amortization or other disposition.<br />

Deferred charges differ from prepaid expenditures in that they usually extend<br />

over a long period of time and may or may not be regularly recurring costs of<br />

operation.<br />

DEFERRED REVENUES. Deferred revenues are those monies or entitlements<br />

which have been recognized as revenues but have not been received and are<br />

therefore not available for use.<br />

DEFICIT. A deficit is a shortfall of revenues and transfers in under expenditures<br />

and transfers out.<br />

DIRECT COSTS. Direct costs are those elements of cost which can be easily,<br />

obviously, and conveniently identified with specific programs or activities, as<br />

distinguished from those costs incurred for several different activities or programs<br />

and whose elements are not readily identified with specific activities.<br />

DISBURSEMENTS. Disbursements are the actual payments of cash by the<br />

<strong>District</strong>.<br />

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