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Chapter 7: Q14PGA (page 411)
What are some common controls used with a bank account?
Some common controls are signature card, check, and deposit ticket.
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In 100 words or fewer, explain why there may be a difference between the bank statement ending cash balance and the ending balance in the Cash account. Give at least two examples of adjustments to the bank balance and the book balance.
Identifying internal controls. Consider each situation separately. Identify the missing internal control procedure from these characteristics:
鈥� Assignment of responsibilities
鈥� Separation of duties
鈥� Audits
鈥� Electronic devices
鈥� Other controls (specify)
a. While reviewing the records of Quality Pharmacy, you find that the same Team member orders merchandise and approves invoices for payment.
b. Business is slow at Amazing Amusement Park on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights. To reduce expenses, the business decides not to use a ticket taker on those nights. The ticket seller (cashier) is told to keep the tickets as a record of the number sold.
c. The same trusted team member has served as a cashier for 12 years.
d. When business is brisk, Fast Mart deposits cash in the bank several times during the day. The manager at one store wants to reduce the time employees spend delivering cash to the bank, so he starts a new policy. Cash will build up over weekends, and the total will be deposited on Monday.
e. Grocery stores such as Convenience Market and Natural Foods purchase most merchandise from a few suppliers. At another grocery store, the manager decides to reduce paperwork. He eliminates the requirement that the receiving department prepare a receiving report listing the goods actually received from
the supplier.
: Identifying timing differences related to a bank reconciliation
For each timing difference listed, identify whether the difference would be reported on
the book side of the reconciliation or the bank side. In addition,
identify whether the difference would be an addition or subtraction.
a. Deposit in transit
b. Bank collection
c. Debit memorandum from bank
d. EFT cash receipt
e. Outstanding checks
f. \(1,000 deposit erroneously recorded
by the bank as \)100
g. Service charges
h. Interest revenue
i. \(2,500 cash payment for rent
expense erroneously recorded by
the business as \)250
j. Credit memorandum from bank
Correcting internal control weaknesses
Each of the following situations has an internal control weakness.
a. Upside-Down Applications develops custom programs to customers鈥� specifications.
Recently, development of a new program stopped while the programmers
redesigned Upside-Down鈥檚 accounting system. Upside-Down鈥檚 accountants could
have performed this task.
b. Norma Rottler has been your trusted employee for 24 years. She performs all cashhandling
and accounting duties. Norma just purchased a new luxury car and a new
home in an expensive suburb. As owner of the company, you wonder how she
can afford these luxuries because you pay her only $30,000 a year and she has no
source of outside income.
c. Izzie Hardwoods, a private company, falsified sales and inventory figures in order
to get an important loan. The loan went through, but Izzie later went bankrupt and
could not repay the bank.
d. The office supply company where Pet Grooming Goods purchases sales receipts
recently notified Pet Grooming Goods that its documents were not prenumbered.
Howard Mustro, the owner, replied that he never uses receipt numbers.
e. Discount stores such as Cusco make most of their sales in cash, with the remainder
in credit card sales. To reduce expenses, one store manager ceases purchasing
fidelity bonds on the cashiers.
f. Cornelius鈥檚 Corndogs keeps all cash receipts in an empty box for a week because
the owner likes to go to the bank on Tuesdays when Joann is working.
Requirements
1. Identify the missing internal control characteristics in each situation.
2. Identify the possible problem caused by each control weakness.
3. Propose a solution to each internal control problem.
The following petty cash transactions of Green Golf Equipment occurred in May:
May 1 Established a petty cash fund with a \(200 balance.
31 The petty cash fund has \)18 in cash and \(180 in petty cash tickets that were issued to pay for Office Supplies(\)81), Delivery Expense (\(36), Postage Expense (\)54), and Miscellaneous Expense ($9).
The petty cash custodianreplenished the fund and recorded the expenses.
Prepare the journal entries.
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