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A 3 page paper discussing the 2007 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) of the City of Sacramento, California. Sacramento has many areas in which it can improve its CAFR. Though its financial reporting is sound and likely should not be questioned, Sacramento's CAFR falls far short of "going the extra mile" to become a useful policy, planning and communication document. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSpubBudSacr.rtf
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Financial Report (CAFR) of the City of Sacramento, California is a document of 186 pages, reflecting the complexity of the budgets and accounting for the capital of Americas most populous
state. Information Provided Assets A document search for "assets" returns no results, because the file is presented as a series of 186 page
objects rather than as a formatted text file. There is a table of contents, of course, which reveals that the CAFR addresses assets in: * Summary of net assets,
MD&A (p. 5) * Statement of net assets, proprietary funds (p. 30) * Statement of fiduciary net assets, fiduciary funds (p. 40) * Statement of changes in fiduciary net assets,
fiduciary funds (p. 41) * Combining statement of net assets, component units (p. 43) * Proprietary funds; other enterprise funds; combining statement of net assets (p. 120) * Proprietary funds;
internal service funds; combining statement of net assets (p. 128) * Fiduciary funds; investment trust funds; combining statement of fiduciary net assets (p. 135) * Fiduciary funds; investment trust funds;
combining statement of changes in fiduciary net assets (p. 136) * Net assets by component, last seven fiscal years (p. 142) Debt Information
It appears that the City makes full debt disclosure, but finding it is difficult. The table of contents lists "Other Special Revenue Funds" that includes debt listings, but debt
is not specifically identified in the table of contents under that listing. The first indication that debt may be regarded in Sacramento as "special revenue" is a subsequent table
of contents listing, "Other Debt Service Funds" (City of Sacramento, 2007; p. 105). "Schedule of Revenues" on page 104 appears to be the first to discuss any debt service,
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