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Identify the treatment of Government Grant received from the government from following:

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 2

In general, a government grant received for a specific capital purpose is treated as capital income and added to the capital fund (in NPO) or credited to a specific reserve. Grants for revenue purposes are credited to the Income and Expenditure Account. The standard textbook default treatment for a general government grant in NPO accounting is capital income.

Note: The question is ambiguous as the nature of the grant is not stated; we have taken it as a general capital receipt as per the commonly tested treatment.

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