Auditing And Assurance Services
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Author: ARENS, Alvin A.
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Consider the scenario in which Brooke Miles, an accounts payable clerk for West Coast Design Inc., misappropriated $48,350 by paying false bills for commodities that were never delivered to the company. It was the clerk's responsibility to open accounts in the names of the phony corporations and pay the cheques at a nearby bank. Describe a fraud-prevention or detection method that may have been used to avoid or identify the scam.
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