Fraud Examination
5th Edition
ISBN: 9781305079144
Author: W. Steve Albrecht, Chad O. Albrecht, Conan C. Albrecht, Mark F. Zimbelman
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 5, Problem 11DQ
(a)
To determine
The treatment for internal control weakness found while auditing.
(b)
To determine
The reaction in a situation when a co-worker recently changed his living to a luxurious life.
(c)
To determine
How to react when a control weakness is found that allows you to embezzle funds from the company.
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Two very common ways that employees commit fraud against their employers is the misstatement of reimbursable expense accounts and the misuse of office supplies for personal purposes. Although these schemes are usually not individually significant, their magnitude can be damaging if these practices are widespread. Please comment on these types of fraud (and other examples of employee fraud) and what internal controls they would put in place in an organization to curb this activity.
1. What does it mean to say that internal control has limitations and what are these limitations?
2. Provide an appropriate response based on the following scenarios.
Assume that the accounting clerk posts a customer’s payment for the wrong amount, giving the customer credit for less than he or she actually paid. How will this error be detected? How might this error have been prevented?
Assume that the employee who opens the mail steals a customer payment. How will this theft be detected? How might this theft have been prevented?
3. What is petty cash and what purpose(s) does it serve?
4. What types of controls should be in place to make sure people in the office don't just take from petty cash (for their own personal use) whenever they feel like it? In your opinion, what is an appropriate amount to have in petty cash?
5. Prepare the necessary journal entries for each of the following:
(a) On March 1, issued a check to establish a petty cash fund of $1,410
(b)…
1. Distinguish between exposure and risk.
2. Explain the characteristics of management fraud.
3. Why are the computer ethics issues of privacy, security, and property ownership of interest to accountants?
4. Explain why collusion between employees and management in the commission of a fraud is difficult to both prevent and detect.
Please provide me a correct answer and PLEASE NO PLAGIARSIM. Thank you.
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Fraud Examination
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