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Indian River County, Florida Notes To Financial Statements Year Ended September 30, 2016 NOTE 1 — SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES — Continued B. Measurement Focus and Basis of Accounting - Continued 1. Government -wide Financial Statements - Continued Amounts paid to acquire capital assets are capitalized as assets in the government -wide financial statements, rather than reported as expenditures. Issuance of long-term debt is recorded as a liability in the government -wide financial statements, rather than as an other financing source. Amounts paid to reduce long-term indebtedness of the reporting government are reported as a reduction of the related liability, rather than as an expenditure. As a general rule, the effect of interfund activity has been eliminated from the government -wide financial statements. The County chooses to eliminate the indirect costs between governmental activities to avoid a "doubling up" effect. However, interfund services provided and used, such as the sale of gas and diesel from Fleet Management to the government, are not eliminated in the statement of activities. 2. Fund Financial Statements The underlying accounting system of the County is organized and operated on the basis of separate funds, each of which is considered to be a separate accounting entity. The operations of each fund are accounted for with a separate set of self -balancing accounts that comprise its assets, deferred outflows of resources, liabilities, deferred inflows of resources, fund balance, revenues and expenditures or expenses, as appropriate. Governmental resources are allocated to and accounted for in individual funds based upon the purposes for which they are to be spent and the means by which spending activities are controlled. Fund financial statements for the primary government's governmental, proprietary, and fiduciary funds are presented after the government -wide financial statements. These statements display information about major funds individually and nonmajor funds in the aggregate for governmental and enterprise funds. Governmental Funds Governmental fund financial statements are reported using the current financial resources measurement focus and the modified accrual basis of accounting. Revenues are recognized as soon as they are both measurable and available. Revenues are considered to be available when they are collected within the current period or soon enough thereafter to pay liabilities of the current period. For this purpose, the County considers revenues to be available if they are collected within 45 days of the end of the current fiscal period. Expenditures generally are recorded when a liability is incurred, as under accrual accounting. Franchise fees, sales taxes, gas taxes, operating and capital grants, and interest associated with the current fiscal period are all considered to be susceptible to accrual and so have been recognized as revenues of the current fiscal period. All other revenue items are considered to be measurable only when the County receives cash. 50