Title: General
Accounting Policies: GAAP
De Minimis Rate Used: N
Rate Explanation: The District has elected not to utilize the 10% de minimis indirect cost rate.
The accompanying Schedules of Expenditures of Federal Awards and State Financial Assistance present the activity of all federal awards and state financial assistance programs of the Highland Park Borough Public School District. The District is defined in Note 1 (A) to the District's Basic Financial Statements. All federal awards and state financial assistance received directly from federal and state agencies, as well as federal awards and state financial assistance passed through other government agencies, is included on the Schedules of Expenditures of Federal Awards and State Financial Assistance.
Title: Basis of accounting
Accounting Policies: GAAP
De Minimis Rate Used: N
Rate Explanation: The District has elected not to utilize the 10% de minimis indirect cost rate.
The accompanying Schedules of Expenditures of Federal Awards and State Financial Assistance are presented on the budgetary basis of accounting with the exception of programs recorded in the food service fund, which are presented using the accrual basis of accounting. These bases of accounting are described in Notes 1 (C) and 1 (D) to the District's financial statements.
Title: Relationship of financial statements
Accounting Policies: GAAP
De Minimis Rate Used: N
Rate Explanation: The District has elected not to utilize the 10% de minimis indirect cost rate.
The Basic Financial Statements present the general fund and special revenue fund on a GAAP basis. Budgetary comparison statements or schedules are presented for the general fund and special revenue fund to demonstrate finance-related legal compliance in which certain revenue is permitted by law or grant agreement to be recognized in the audit year, whereas for GAAP reporting, revenue is not recognized until the subsequent year or when expenditures have been made.
The general fund is presented in the accompanying schedules on the modified accrual basis with the exception of the revenue recognition of the one or more deferred June state aid payments in the current budget year, which is mandated pursuant to N.J.S.A. 18A:22-44.2. For GAAP purposes payments are not recognized until the subsequent budget year due to the state deferral and recording of the one or more June state aid payments in the subsequent year. The special revenue fund is presented in the accompanying schedules on the budgetary basis which recognizes encumbrances as expenditures and also recognizes the related revenues, whereas the GAAP basis does not. The special revenue fund also recognizes the one or more state aid June payments in the current budget year, consistent with N.J.S.A. 18A:22-4.2.
The net adjustment to reconcile from the budgetary basis to the GAAP basis is ($158,007) for the general fund, ($548,125) for the special revenue fund. See Exhibit C-3 for a reconciliation of the budgetary basis to the modified accrual basis of accounting for the general and special revenue funds.
Title: Relationship of financial statements
Accounting Policies: GAAP
De Minimis Rate Used: N
Rate Explanation: The District has elected not to utilize the 10% de minimis indirect cost rate.
Financial assistance revenues are reported in the District’s Basic Financial Statements on a GAAP basis as follows:
Federal State Total
General fund $ 63,329 $ 15,638,261 $ 15,701,590
Special revenue fund 2,447,984 784,447 3,232,431
Capital projects fund - 122,680 122,680
Debt service fund - 9,789 9,789
Food service fund 526,299 26,950 553,249
Total awards and
financial assistance $3,037,612 $ 16,582,127 $ 19,619,739
Title: Relationship to federal and state financial reports
Accounting Policies: GAAP
De Minimis Rate Used: N
Rate Explanation: The District has elected not to utilize the 10% de minimis indirect cost rate.
Amounts reported in the accompanying schedules agree with the amounts reported in the related federal and state financial reports.
Title: Other
Accounting Policies: GAAP
De Minimis Rate Used: N
Rate Explanation: The District has elected not to utilize the 10% de minimis indirect cost rate.
Revenues and expenditures reported under the USDA Commodities Program represent current year distributions, respectively. The amount reported as TPAF Pension Contributions represents the amount paid by the state on behalf of the District for the year ended June 30, 2024. TPAF Social Security contribution represents the amount reimbursed by the state for the employer's share of Social Security contributions for TPAF members for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024.
Title: Adjustments on the schedule of state and federal financial assitance
Accounting Policies: GAAP
De Minimis Rate Used: N
Rate Explanation: The District has elected not to utilize the 10% de minimis indirect cost rate.
On Schedule A; the adjustments to IDEA Basic, Title I, Title III, CRSSA - ESSER II, ARP - ESSER Accelerated Learning Coach and Educator Support and Equipment Grant totaling $36,828 represents $24,515 of cancelled prior year encumbrances and $12,313 of transactions reclassified to the general fund. On Schedule B; the adjustments to Non-Public Textbook Aid, Non-Public Nursing Aid and Non-Public Security Aid totaling $6,348 represent amounts due from another LEA that are in turn due back to the State of New Jersey.
Title: Indirect costs
Accounting Policies: GAAP
De Minimis Rate Used: N
Rate Explanation: The District has elected not to utilize the 10% de minimis indirect cost rate.
The District has elected not to utilize the 10% de minimis indirect cost rate.