Statement of Accounts 2011/2012 - Blackburn with Darwen Borough ...

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
The debit balance on the Pensions Reserve therefore shows a substantial shortfall in the benefits earned by past
and current employees and the resources the Council has set aside to meet them. The statutory arrangements
will ensure that funding will have been set aside by the time the benefits come to be paid.
2010/11 2011/12
£000 £000
195,278 Balance at 1 April 145,329
( 30,721 ) Actuarial gains or losses on pensions assets 34,213
and liabilities
( 5,695 ) Reversal of items relating to retirement benefits
debited or credited to the Surplus or Deficit on
the Provision of Services in the Comprehensive
Income and Expenditure Statement
15,744
( 13,533 ) Employer’s pension contributions ( 12,576 )
145,329 Balance at 31 March 182,710
Collection Fund Adjustment Account
The Collection Fund Adjustment Account manages the differences arising from the recognition of council tax
income in the Comprehensive Income and Expenditure Statement as it falls due from council tax payers
compared with the statutory arrangements for paying across amounts to the General fund from the Collection
Fund.
2010/11 2011/12
£000 £000
( 15 ) Balance at 1 April 189
204 Amount by which the council tax income
credited to the Comprehensive Income and
Expenditure Statement is different from council
868
tax income calculated for the year in
accordance with statutory requirements
189 Balance at 31 March 1,057
Accumulating Compensated Absences Adjustment Account
The Accumulating Compensated Absences Adjustment Account absorbs the differences that would otherwise
arise on the General Fund Balance from accruing for compensated absences earned but not taken in the year
e.g. annual leave entitlement carried forward at 31 March. Statutory arrangements require that the impact on the
General Fund Balance is neutralised by transfers to or from the Account.
2010/11 2011/12
£000 £000 £000
4,147 Balance at 1 April 3,928
( 4,147 ) Settlement or cancellation of accrual made at ( 3,928 )
the end of the preceding year
3,928 Amounts accrued at the end of the current year 3,713
( 219 )
Amount by which officer remuneration charged
to the Comprehensive Income and Expenditure
Statement on an accruals basis is different
from remuneration chargeable in the year in
accordance with statutory requirements
( 215 )
3,928 Balance at 31 March 3,713
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