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This kind of question generally requires information from more than one report or source. In this case, I looked at the fund balance at the bottom of the “statement of financial position,” or balance sheet. Sometimes referred to as “unrestricted net assets,” the fund balance for a nonprofit is analogous to equity on a corporation’s balance sheet or an individual’s net worth.

In a perfect nonprofit world, with 100% predictable spending and fundraising, year-end balance sheets would show exactly zero on the bottom line. Only revenue and expenses of school generated funds controlled by the Division are included in the Consolidated Statement of Revenue, Expenses and Accumulated Surplus. Accumulated Surplusmeans the accumulated excess of revenues over expenses from prior years which has not been set aside for specific purposes. Accumulated deficit, or retained loss, crops up on the balance sheet when the company’s debts are more than its profits.

What Is a Surplus Auction?

At worst, they lose what they’ve invested, but they’re never liable for the company’s debts beyond that. From the outside, of course, it’s easy to be the stern voice of financial control. All organizations should be conservative in their revenue projections and run a surplus every year, just as we should all have spotless houses and raise well-behaved children. But the real world of compelling needs and limited resources is much more challenging.

Cumulative year-to-date outlays increased 4% ($245 billion) compared to the first 11 months of FY2020, with high expenditure levels driven by COVID-19 relief programs. While federal spending in response to the pandemic has occurred throughout the entirety of FY2021—compared to approximately only three quarters of FY2020—some of it has decreased year-over-year. As the economy added back jobs that were lost in 2020 and some states ended enhanced unemployment benefits early, spending on unemployment compensation was down 14% ($61 billion) compared to last year. Across the first quarter of FY2022, spending ticked up by $75 billion (6%) year-over-year to a total of $1.4 trillion.

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The Congressional Budget Office reported that the federal government generated a $737 billion deficit in April, the seventh month of fiscal year 2020. April’s deficit is a $897 billion swing from the $160 billion surplus recorded a year earlier in April 2019. April’s shortfall brings the total deficit so far this fiscal year to $1.48 trillion, which is 179% ($949 billion) higher than the same period last year. Total revenues so far in FY2020 decreased by 10% ($200 billion), while spending increased by 29% ($749 billion), compared to the same period last year. Nonetheless, while spending on these programs far exceeds pre-COVID levels, it’s fallen significantly from earlier in 2020. The $62 billion spent on unemployment insurance in September is down 47% from its June peak of $116 billion.

• In a perfect nonprofit world, with 100% predictable spending and fundraising, year-end balance sheets would show exactly zero on the bottom line.
• The cumulative deficit for FY2022 thus far is $149 billion (24%) lower than even the deficit over the comparable period in FY2020, pre-dating the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Some of the ratio calculations require information that cannot be found on the balance sheet.
• The Congressional Budget Office reported that the federal government ran a deficit of $399 billion in May, the eighth month of fiscal year 2020.

As a result, year-over-year comparisons now are largely capturing variations in emergency responses to COVID-19 rather than underlying trends in the government’s fiscal health. For instance, this April’s deficit was large—but 78% smaller than last April’s, when provisions in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economist Security Act created what was then the largest monthly deficit on record. Comparisons to earlier Aprils are also tricky, since individual income tax payments due on April 15 typically cause the federal government to run a surplus in April. This year, however, the deadline for final payment of income taxes has been pushed back to May 17, making April 2021 fiscally unique. Growth in federal revenues remains robust, increasing 17% ($494 billion) compared to the same 10-month period in FY2020.

Tracking the Federal Deficit: December 2019

After the projected trust fund reserve depletion in 2034, continuing income would be sufficient to pay 80 percent of program cost, declining to 74 percent for 2097. Therefore, units must make every effort to ensure that an activity does not generate a year-end deficit or surplus in excess of 15% of prior accumulated surplus/deficit year expenditures. If the activity is subject to seasonal fluctuations, then a calendar year or other 12-month period may be used to evaluate the surplus or deficit. Historically, CBO’s preliminary data is accurate, often differing from Treasury’s final figures by only a few billion dollars, if at all.

Assumptions for growth are largely unchanged after the first 10 years of the projection period. The Trustees will continue to monitor developments and modify projections in future reports. Pandemic appears to be over, the Trustees expect there will be residual effects on the population and the economy for years to come. Since the assumptions for last year’s report were set, the Trustees have reassessed their expectations for the economy in view of recent developments, including updated data on inflation and output. Accordingly, they have revised downward future levels of gross domestic product and labor productivity by about 3 percent over the long-range projection period (2023–2097). The report also compares countries on services balance, exports of services, import of services, goods balance, export of goods and imports of goods in billions of US dollars.

Additionally, the Biden administration’s decision in February to end the federal Public Health Emergency for COVID-19 on May 11, 2023, will affect outlays over the coming months. Meanwhile, as tax season progresses, BPC will closely monitor collections as they will directly impact the X Date, which we currently project to land sometime this summer or early fall. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the federal government ran a deficit of $146 billion in November, the second month of fiscal year 2021. This deficit was the difference between $365 billion of spending and $219 billion of revenue. Spending in November, however, was artificially lowered by the fact that November 1 fell on a weekend, causing $63 billion worth of payments that would normally be made in November to be made in October instead.

In addition a register informing financial institutions about authorities in need of borrowing approval provides voters with reliable information about fiscal performance. We find evidence of stronger fiscal adjustment after the reform, in particular for local governments with past deficits that are at risk of being enrolled in the register. Moreover, an important finding is that this result also holds for local government with past deficits that do not end up in the register. Local governments with past surpluses are less affected by the reform, but there is some evidence in the direction of lower surpluses for this group.

Tracking the Federal Deficit: October 2022

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• Meanwhile, spending this September was 70% greater than last September (albeit only 44% greater when accounting for a shift in the timing of some payments).
• The accumulated funds were directed from the donations from the Haiti earthquakes that took place in 2010.
• The Congressional Budget Office reported that the federal government generated a $117 billion deficit in March, the sixth month of fiscal year 2020.