Horngren's Accounting (12th Edition)
12th Edition
ISBN: 9780134486444
Author: Tracie L. Miller-Nobles, Brenda L. Mattison, Ella Mae Matsumura
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 7, Problem 7.1FC
Fraud Case 7-1
Didrikson Rubin, the auditor of Red Barn Farm Equipment was verifying cash payments to vendors for the past several months. She noticed that several checks had been paid to a specific vendor, but she couldn’t find a record of the transactions in the computerized system. Didrikson suspects that an employee is issuing checks to a fictitious vendor and then deleting the transactions from the computerized system. How might Didrikson investigate the suspected fraud?
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Chapter 7 Solutions
Horngren's Accounting (12th Edition)
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