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Article D3661-11 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

I.-The financing requirement or surplus of the investment section recorded at the end of the financial year is made up of the outturn balance corrected for outstanding commitments. The outturn balance of the investment section corresponds to the difference between the amount of revenue vouchers and the amount of expenditure orders issued during the financial year, including, where applicable, reductions and cancellations of revenue and expenditure, plus or minus the…

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Article D3661-12 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The cumulative result defined in II of article D. 3661-11 is allocated, when 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 there is a deficit, it is added to the operating expenditure…

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Article D3661-13 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

If the administrative account has not been adopted by the date of the vote on the budget for the following financial year, when the result of the operating section, the financing requirement or, where applicable, the surplus of the investment section and the allocation forecast are carried forward, under the conditions set out in the third paragraph of Article L. 3661-11, the entries in the budget are justified by the…

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Article D3661-14 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

For the application of Article L. 3661-12, when the investment section of the budget shows a surplus, the following may be written back to the operating section: – the proceeds from the sale of a fixed asset received as a gift or bequest, provided that it is not expressly allocated to investment; – the proceeds from the sale of a budget investment. The recovery of this income is limited to…

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Article D3661-15 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The summary data on the financial situation of metropolitan Lyon, provided for in 1° of the first paragraph of article L. 3661-15, include the following ratios: 1° Real operating expenditure/population; 2° Real operating revenue/population; 3° Gross capital expenditure/population; 4° Outstanding debt/population; 5° Overall operating grant/population. 6° Personnel expenditure/actual operating expenditure; 7° Actual operating expenditure and annual capital repayment of debt/actual operating revenue; 8° Gross capital expenditure/actual operating revenue; 9° Outstanding…

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Article D3661-16 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

I.-For the application of Article D. 3661-15 : a) The population to be taken into account is the sum of the total populations, municipal and counted separately, of the member municipalities of the Lyon metropolitan authority, as resulting from the last known census on the date of production of the budget documents; b) Actual operating expenditure means all expenditure for the financial year resulting in actual movements. However, for the…

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Article D3661-17 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The statements appended to the budget documents pursuant to Article L. 3661-15 are as follows: I. – Statements appended to the budget and the administrative account : 1° Tables summarising the status of borrowings and debts; 2° Presentation of the status of provisions; 3° Presentation of the methods used for depreciation; 4° Presentation of the balance of financial operations; 5° Presentation of the status of charges transferred to investment; 6°…

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Article D3661-18 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The audited accounts referred to in article L. 3661-16 are audited by a statutory auditor for bodies subject to the obligation to certify their accounts, and by the chairman of the body concerned for bodies not subject to such an obligation. The statutory auditors are responsible for the auditing of the accounts of bodies subject to the obligation to certify their accounts.

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Article D3662-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

For the application of article L. 3662-9, the difference between the sale value of a fixed asset and its net book value must be recorded in the investment section of the budget before the result of the operating section can be determined. For the application of the same article, provisions do not give rise to the entry of appropriations in the investment section of the budget. However, the Lyon Metropolitan…

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