Please help with this question. Thanks in advance.

Upon graduating from the Accounting Program at Baruch College, you are hired by the

administrative office of the township of Placid Lake, NY$.$ The township has a new mayor who enjoys

stating they are "not good with numbers." The new mayor, however, appreciates the importance of

understanding the town's financial position $-$ among others, they have made a lot of expensive

promises while campaigning and would like to understand how they can honor them. The mayor

has been given four statements $-$ the government$-$wide statement of net assets, the government$-$

wide statement of activities, the balance sheet for the General Fund, and the statement of

revenues, expenditures, and changes in the fund balances of the General Fund. They request your

help with the following:

The mayor has noticed that sometimes the expenses on one statement equal the expenditures

on another. What is the difference between expenses and expenditures in the provided statements

and why do they $($only$)$ sometimes equal each other?