- Permanent fund
In the United States, a permanent fund is one of the five
fund types established by GAAP classified as a government fund, put simply a permanent fund may be used to generate and disperse money to those entitled to receive payments by qualification or agreement, as in the case of Alaska citizens or residents that satisfy the rules for payment from their permanet fund from State oil revenues. It was first introduced through GASB Statement 34. The name of the fund comes from the purpose of the fund: a sum of equity used to permanently generate payments to maintain some financial obligation. Also, A fund can only be classified as a permanent fund if the money is used to report the status of a restricted financial resource. The resource is restricted in the sense that only earnings from the resource are used and not the principal. For example, a fund can be classified as a permanent fund if it being used to pay for accounting services for a perpetual endowment of a government-run cemetery orfinancial endowment s towards a government-run library.A common misconception is that permanent funds are required for special-purpose government entities that solely engage in business-type activities. However, this is not the case. According to Statement 34, that special-purpose government entity needs only to report the net balance of the restricted resources.
See also
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The Petroleum Fund of Norway
*Permanent University Fund - funds universities inTexas from oil revenue.
* TheAlaska Permanent Fund provides annual dividends to residents of the State ofAlaska
*Public company
*Crony capitalism
*Government Accountability Office investigations of the Department of Defense
*Federal Accountability Act (Canada)
*Government financial reports External links
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