From: "Victoria Heller
> The transfers TO AND FROM internal funds should be equal - but they're
not.
> The budget shows $97.6 million TO other funds, and $122 million FROM other
> funds.  This would indicate that there is a magical fund outside of the
> City's budget.
>
> In other words, we are receiving $24.4 million from nowhere.
>
> Accountants generally call this a "plug" entry.  The Enron accountants
> called this sort of entry "harmonizing accounts."
>
> Maybe someone from the City would be kind enough to explain this
> discrepancy.

I would also be curious to have someone from the City explain this as when I
do budgets, the "froms" and the "tos" always balanced....

Carol Becker
Longfellow


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