Not many walk into a city office already knowing fund accounting. Most clerks and finance officers learn it the hard way, one confusing ledger at a time. This 30-minute session is the crash course every new municipal employee wishes they'd gotten on day one.
Gail Tucker walks through what fund accounting actually is, why local governments use it, and the handful of concepts that make everything else click, including pool accounts, where the bank shows one balance and your books show several funds.
Gail has spent 35 years since with BBI, a gWorks company, working alongside the people who run small local governments. She knows exactly where fund accounting gets confusing.
