Horngren's Accounting (11th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780133856781
Author: Tracie L. Miller-Nobles, Brenda L. Mattison, Ella Mae Matsumura
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Chapter 8, Problem E8.12E
E8-13 Identifying internal controls
Learning Objective 1
Consider each situation separately. Identify the missing internal control procedure from these characteristics:
• Assignment of responsibilities
• Separation of duties
• Audits
• Electronic devices
• Other controls (specify)
a. While reviewing the records of Quality Pharmacy, you find that the same employee 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 employee has served as cashier for 12 years.
d. When business is brisk, Fask 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 a Convenience Market and Natural Foods purchase most merchandise from a few supplies. 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.
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E8-12 Understanding the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and identifying internal c
strengths and weaknesses
The following situations suggest a strength or a weakness in internal control.
a. Top managers delegate all internal control procedures to the accounting
department.
E8-14
Learning Objective 1
b. Accounting department staff (or the bookkeeper) orders merchandise and
approves invoices for payment.
c. Cash received over the counter is controlled by the sales clerk, who rings up th
sale and places the cash in the register. The sales clerk matches the total recorded
by the register to each day's cash sales.
d. The employee who signs checks need not examine the payment packet because be
is confident the amounts are correct.
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Requirements
1. Define internal control.
2. The system of internal control must be tested by external auditors. What law or
rule requires this testing?
3. Identify each item in the list above as either a strength or a weakness in internal
control, and give your…
Consider each situation separately Identify the missing internal control procedure from these characteristics
•Assignment of responsibilities
•Separation of duties
•Audits
Electronic devices
⚫ Other controls (specify)
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(Leave the "Reason for "Other" control column blank if "Other controls" is not selected for the "Internal Control Procedure" co
a. While reviewing the records of Quality Pharmacy, you find that the same employee 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 employee has served as 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…
Internal Control-Fraud Triangle
Identify the fraud triangle risk factor (opportunity-O, pressure-P or
rationalization-R) in each situation.
1.
2.
3.
Employeees are told to report increased income or be fired.
Several sales clerks share the same cash drawer.
A worker did not receive a bonus this year and now feels it's okay
to use the company credit cared for personal expenses.
4.
Doors safeguarding valuable merchandise are not locked with a
passcode.
An employee feels underpaid and believes stealing inventory is
justified.
5.
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