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Indian River County, Florida Property Appraiser Notes To Financial Statements Year Ended September 30, 2011 NOTE 1 - SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES — Continued D. Capital Assets Acquisitions of equipment are recorded as expenditures at the time of purchase for governmental fund financial statements. Tangible personal property used by the Property Appraiser in operations is reported in the financial statements of the County. Refer to the County -wide note on capital assets for capitalization threshold, depreciation methodology and useful lives. E. Compensated Absences The Property Appraiser accrues a liability for employees' rights to receive compensation for future absences when certain conditions are met. The Property Appraiser does not, nor is he legally required to, accumulate expendable available financial resources to liquidate this obligation. Accordingly, the liability for compensated absences is not reported on the Property Appraiser's financial statements. Additional information on the liability is reflected in subsequent Note 6. F. Transfer Out In accordance with Florida Statutes, all revenues in excess of expenditures as of year-end are owed to the Board of County Commissioners and other governments. These "excess fees" totaled $74,005 and are reported as transfers out. These transfers are also reflected as due to other governments on the balance sheet. G. Fund Balance GASB Statement 54 — Fund Balance Reporting and Governmental Funds Type Definitions was implemented as of October 1, 2009. This Statement requires the fund balance for governmental funds to be reported in classifications that comprise a hierarchy based primarily on the extent to which the government is bound to honor constraints on the specific purposes for which amounts in those funds can be spent. Categories for fund balance are as follows: nonspendable, restricted, committed, assigned, and unassigned. For more information, see the County -wide Note on Fund Balance. NOTE 2 - CASH Deposits At September 30, 2011, the carrying amount of the Property Appraiser's deposits was $89,428 and the bank balance was $156,396. All deposits with financial institutions were 100% insured by federal depository insurance or by collateral provided by qualified public depositories to the State Treasurer in accordance with Section 280.01, Florida Statutes, also known as the Florida Security for Public Deposits Act. The Property Appraiser adopted the Board of County Commissioners' investment policy. This policy requires the Property Appraiser's office to follow the above state law (governing custodial credit risk) for cash deposits. Refer to the County -wide Note 4, Cash and Cash Equivalents, for definition of custodial credit risk. 314