Comprehensive Annual Financial Report Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2001 GENERAL PURPOSE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - Notes To Financial Statements - Note 17 - Retatement of Fund Balances/Retained Earnings

State of Connecticut

Note 17 Restatement of Fund Balances/Retained Earnings

As of June 30, 2001, the beginning fund balances/retained earnings for the following funds were restated as follows (amounts in thousands):

Correction
Balance of Balance
6/30/00 Reported 6/30/00
Previously Fund GASB Assets/ as

Fund

Reported Reclass No. 33 Liabilities Restated
General $ 554,915 $ - $ 228,712 $ (2,619) $ 781,008
Special Revenue:
Enviroment. Prog. 155,261 (1,536) - - 153,725
Capital Projects:
State Facilities (154,133) - - (39,117) (193,250)
Enterprise:
Rental Housing 71,058 - - (6,334) 64,724
John Demp. Hosp.
( 9-30-00) 76,118 - - (22,432) 53,686
Internal Service: -
Information/Tech. 16,967 - - (61) 16,906
Administrative Svc 20,322 - - 471 20,793
Expendable:
Employment Security 842,089 - 77,514 - 919,603
Other 42,329 - - (1,819) 40,510
Nonexpendable:
Drinking Water - 1,536 - 49 1,585
Other 36,569 - - (4,884) 31,685
Higher Education
Plant 2,117,793 - - (99,447) 2,018,346

The restatements were made because of the following reasons:

  1. The implementation of GASB Statement No. 33, "Accounting and Financial Reporting for Nonexchange Transactions". This statement requires that (a) taxes and other assessments should be recognized as revenues in the period when the underlying exchange transactions has occurred and the resources are available and (b) grants and other financial aid should be recognized as revenue when all eligibility requirements imposed by the provider have been met and the resources are available.
  2. A change in the reporting period used by John Dempsey Hospital from September 30 to June 30 , which was implemented this year. Because the combined financial statements for last year included John Dempsey Hospital's financial statements as of September 30, 1999, the above restatement includes an operating loss of $13,841 for the period September 30, 1999 through September 30, 2000.
  3. The recording of accumulated depreciation of $138,186 in the Plant funds of the Health Center (a higher education unit). In prior years, the Health Center did not record depreciation in its Plant funds.
  4. The recognition of unexpended bond allotments as an interfund receivable ($38,739) and payable in the Plant funds and in the State Facilities fund, respectively. In prior years, unexpended bond allotments were not recognized in the combined financial statements.