Quiz 6

Which of the following is a reason that businesses use bank accounts as part of their internal control measures. a.The bank records incoming checks as liabilities. b.Customer’s returned checks can be charged an NSF fee. c.Differences between the company balance and the bank balance will automatically indicate fraud. d.Bank accounts are an independent record of cash transactions.

The accounting clerk pays all obligations by pre numbered checks. What are the strengths and weaknesses in the internal control over cash payments in this situation?What is the purpose of preparing a bank reconciliation?

Bank confirmations are critical to the cash audit. What information does the auditor obtain by sending bank confirmations? Explain the different types of bank confirmations and what assertions each type addresses. How is it determined which is the best bank confirmation type to use?

Assume that brooke miles accounts payable clerk for west coast design inc.stole $48,350 by paying fictitious companies and cashed the checks at a local banks.  Describe a control procedure that would have prevented or detected the fraud?

An auditor suspects that a client's cashier is misappropriating cash receipts for personal use by lapping customer checks received in the mail. In attempting to uncover this embezzlement scheme, the auditor most likely would compare the Group of answer choices Daily cash summaries with the sums of the cash receipts journal entries. Individual bank deposit slips with the details of the monthly bank statements. Dates checks are deposited per bank statements with the dates remittance credits are recorded. Dates uncollectible accounts are authorized to be written off with the dates the write-offs are actually recorded.