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What Are The Effectiveness Of Sport's Billing Procedures In Relation To Accounts Receivable

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A review has been conducted to determine the effectiveness of Sport’s Zones billing procedures in relation to accounts receivable. In order to effectively ensure the business has adequate documentations and records to prevent fraud and theft within the business, a number of source documents should be included. These include tax invoices, adjustment/credit notes, a statement of account and monitoring receipts from accounts receivable with reporting. Throughout the investigation it is evident that the business has adequate documentation of tax invoices which is the main document that certifies that a credit sale has taken place. These documents are important to ensure that the right amount of money is coming in through to the business so …show more content…

The purpose of the report is to identify slow-paying customers so that action can be taken immediately. By not having this procedure in place the business will unaware of the customers that have invoices overdue, the business can lose money as the account may be ridden off as a bad debt if no payment is received and it also makes it easier for fraud to be committed. The fraud table above shows the elements of fraud which is one of the ways of seeing how fraud occurs. The three aspects it consists of are; the Act which refers to the fraud committed, the concealment which is trying to cover up the act or masking it and the conversion is the final aspect which is what the perpetrator benefits or does benefit from it. In Queensland, concealment is not legally required but it often delivers some of the greatest circumstantial evidence to support that the acts were done intentionally so that the committer could gain benefit from it. Through the investigation and information provided about Tim Landers, the fraud act involved stealing inventories from the company’s stock whilst reporting them as damaged, and then creating a website claiming to be the actual company ‘Sports Zone’. It was evident that Tim had very little leave throughout the 5 years of his work at the company so was able to hide his tracks from the other staff and the concealment of the act was done through Sports Equipment Co which was the fake company he created. The website Tim formed is where the

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