The accumulated result defined in article R. 3312-9 is allocated, where it is a surplus:
1° As a priority, to reserves to cover the financing requirement of the investment section arising at the close of the previous financial year;
2° For the balance, to the operating surplus carried forward or as an additional allocation to reserves.
Where this is a deficit, it is added to the operating expenditure for the financial year.
For allocation to reserves, the budgetary decision to take back the results, adopted by the deliberative assembly, is implemented by issuing a revenue order. The resolution allocating the surplus is produced in support of the budgetary decision to take back the results and the administrative account for the financial year, to justify the receipts.