GUIDE FOR BASIC ACCOUNTING AND REPORTING
FOR LOAN GUARANTEE PROGRAMS
WITHOUT COLLATERAL
IN FEDERAL CREDIT PROGRAM
Loan Guarantee Page 3 of 153 August 2017
Prepare agency financial statements;
Audit the agency financial statements;
Manage or provide service to participants in loan guarantee programs;
Design and maintain computer systems for financial programs;
Instruct others in basic accounting and reporting for loan guarantee programs without collateral.
The guide is illustrative, rather than authoritative, and is categorized as “other accounting literature” in the hierarchy of accounting
principles for Federal entities.
It supersedes the original and subsequent loan guarantee scenarios. Users may download the guide
from the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (FS) Web site at www.fiscal.treasury.gov/fsreports/ref/ussgl/ussgl/ussgl_htm.
In order to understand and gain the most from the guide, users must have a working knowledge of the following:
Budgetary and proprietary accounting, reporting, and terminology;
The United States Standard General Ledger (USSGL) accounts for basic annual operating appropriations and revolving funds;
and
The Federal Credit Reform Act and other requirements established by the Act;
The concepts of Federal credit program accounting and reporting, fund structures, and terminology.
This guide is a study in accounting and reporting for a discretionary loan guarantee program under the Federal Credit Reform Act of
1990, as amended, for loan guarantees obligated after September 30, 1991. Loan guarantees are any guarantee, insurance, or other
pledge for the payment of all or a part of the principal or interest on any debt obligation of a non-Federal borrower to a non-Federal
lender, except for the insurance of deposits, shares, or other withdrawals in financial institutions. Loans that are financed by the
Federal Financing Bank pursuant to agency loan guarantee authority are treated as direct loans rather than loan guarantees.
Transactions are presented over a 3-year period for a fictitious Federal agency with a single annual loan guarantee program with no
risk categories. Transactions for fiscal year 2 show the disposition of the upward re-estimated subsidy accrued in fiscal year 1, as well
See §II.4, Instructions for Annual Financial Statements, OMB Circular A-136.
OMB Circular No. A-11, Section 185.3(e)