ERIC Number: EJ520103
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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ISSN: ISSN-0147-877X
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Accounting for Endowment Losses: An Examination of Two Approaches.
Jones, M. Paul; Swieringa, Robert J.
Business Officer, v29 n8 p38-43 Feb 1996
Two accounting strategies for classifying college or university endowment losses are compared: reduction of permanently restricted net assets and reduction of unrestricted net assets. The approaches differ in their effects on classification of net assets only when capital losses on endowment investments bring the fund below the level required in perpetuity. An example of an accounting situation is offered. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classification, College Administration, Endowment Funds, Higher Education, Money Management, Recordkeeping, School Accounting
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Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Numerical/Quantitative Data; Journal Articles
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Audience: Administrators; Practitioners
Language: English
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