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Study Notes
Financial Management Terms
- Acceleration: The collection of all assessments due through the end of the fiscal year, where all monthly payments through December of that year are due immediately if an owner's payments on the annual assessment become delinquent.
Accounting Methods
- Accrual basis of accounting: Records income when it is earned (or assessed to owners) and expenses when they are incurred or acquired.
- Cash basis of accounting: Records income when it is collected and expenses when they are paid.
- Modified cash basis of accounting: Records income and expenses on a cash basis with selected items recorded on an accrual basis.
Financial Concepts
- Assets: Anything owned that has value, excluding the actual land and buildings of the community association.
- Liabilities: What is owed to others or collected in advance, such as owner assessments received prior to the billed month.
- Net income: The amount left after deducting expenses from income.
- Net loss: Occurs when expenses are greater than income.
- Revenue: Consists of the collective items or amounts of income appropriated for public expenses.
Budgeting and Funding
- Baseline funding: Aims to keep the reserve cash balance above zero.
- Full funding: Aims to attain and maintain the reserves at or near 100% as called for on the component inventory.
- Historical trend budgeting: Begins with the assumption that existing line items are needed, adjusting for expected changes in the coming year.
- Threshold funding: Based on the baseline-funding concept, with a minimum reserve cash balance set at a predetermined dollar amount.
- Zero-based budgeting: All line items are set to zero, and the amount of funds allotted to each must be justified.
Financial Reports and Statements
- Balance sheet: A summary of a community's financial position at a specific point in time.
- Chart of accounts: An organized list of titles, descriptions, and assigned numbers of all accounts in an organization's general ledger.
- Compilation: A presentation of financial statements by a CPA without assurance that the information conforms to GAAP.
- Notes to financial statements: Accompany the CPA-prepared financial statements, providing additional information to help understand the community association's financial situation.
- Statement of cash flows: Shows the flow of funds into and out of the community association.
- Statement of income and expense: Records the community association's financial transactions during a given period of time.
Investments and Banking
- Certificate of deposit (CD): When reinvested with accumulated interest, the ultimate yield will be higher than the stated rate of interest.
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC): Guarantees investors' deposits in member institutions.
- Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC): Buys mortgages from lenders, requiring certain types of insurance to be in place.
- Investment yield: The return received on the investment.
- Treasury bills: Short-term instruments that mature in 13, 26, or 52 weeks, issued in minimum denominations of $10,000.
- Treasury bonds: Mature in more than 10 years, issued in denominations from 1,000to1,000 to 1,000to100,000, with interest paid every six months.
Other Terms
- Audit: An examination of the accounting records and procedures of an organization by a CPA to verify the accuracy and completeness of financial records.
- Bad debt write-off: Recording an uncollectible debt as an expense that the association must absorb, usually requiring a resolution of the board.
- Commercial reporting method: Combines operating and reserve activities in the same column.
- Discretionary budget line items: Based on owner, board, and committee desires, such as social and recreational expenses, and picnic areas.
- Engagement letter: Describes the nature of the work to be done, type of report to be prepared, fee for services, and time frame for the assignment.
- Fair Debt Collection Practices Act: Requires written notice to the person who owes a debt.
- Foreclosure: A legal proceeding filed in court to claim ownership of a unit to recover money owed.
- Fund reporting method: Prepares separate columns for operating, reserve, and any special funds.
- Lien: A legal claim by one party on the property of another to obtain payment of a debt or satisfaction of an obligation.
- Major improvement expenses: Items added to improve the overall welfare, safety, or life of the residents, or to enhance the value of the community association.
- Members' equity: The difference between the community association's assets and liabilities, also known as the fund balance under the fund method of reporting.
- Personal money judgment: A decision by a judge to allow the community association to claim the owner's personal property to settle a delinquent account.
- Reconciliation of expenses and revenue: Bringing together estimated expenses and anticipated revenue to ensure a balanced budget.
- Replacement fund: A fund put aside for the replacement of major components of a community's common property.
- ** Representation letter**: A letter from the CPA stating that the information provided is true to the best of the community association's knowledge.
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This quiz covers key terms related to financial management in property ownership, including acceleration of assessments, accrual basis of accounting, and assessments themselves.