Statement of Net Position

CITY OF EDMOND, OKLAHOMA MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION & ANALYSIS June 30, 2021

deteriorating, or remaining steady. However, you must consider other nonfinancial factors, such as changes in the City’s sales tax base, the condition of the City’s roads, and the quality of services to assess the overall health and performance of the City.

As mentioned above, in the Statement of Net Position and the Statement of Activities, we divide the City into three kinds of activities:

 Governmental activities -- Most of the City’s basic services are reported here, including the police, fire, general administration, streets, and parks. Sales taxes, franchise fees, fines, and state and federal grants finance most of these activities.

 Business-type activities -- The City charges a fee to customers to help cover all or most of the cost of certain services it provides. The City’s electric, water, wastewater, sanitation, lake, drainage, and golf course activities are reported here.

 Discretely-presented component units – These account for activities of the City’s reporting entity that do not meet the criteria for blending, specifically the Historic Preservation Trust and the

Edmond Economic Development Authority.

Reporting the City’s Most Significant Funds

Fund Financial Statements

The fund financial statements provide detailed information about the most significant funds – not the City as a whole. Some funds are required to be established by State law and by bond covenants. However, management establishes many other funds to help it control and manage money for particular purposes or to show that it is meeting legal responsibilities for using certain taxes, grants and other money. The City’s three fund categories-governmental, and proprietary, and fiduciary use different accounting approaches.

Governmental funds - Most of the City’s basic services are reported in governmental funds, which focus on how money flows into and out of those funds and the balances left at year-end that are available for spending. These funds are reported using an accounting method called modified accrual accounting, which measures cash and all other financial assets that can readily be converted to cash. The governmental fund statements provide a detailed short-term view of the City’s general government operations and the basic service it provides. Governmental fund information helps determine whether there are more or fewer financial resources that can be spent in the near future to finance the City’s programs. We illustrate the relationship (or differences) between governmental activities (reported in the Statement of Net Position and the Statement of Activities) and the governmental funds with reconciliation at the bottom of the fund financial statements.

Proprietary funds - When the City charges customers for the services it provides – whether to outside customers or to other units of the City – these services are generally reported in proprietary funds. Proprietary funds are reported in the same way that all activities are reported in the Statement of Net Position, the Statement of Revenues, Expenses and Changes in Fund Net Position and Statement of Cash Flows. In fact, the City’s enterprise funds are the essentially the same as the business-type activities we report in the government-wide statements but provide more detail and additional information, such as cash flows.