1. As an accountant, why you need to study the revenue cycle? 2. If you are going to audit the cash receipts cycle, what are the things you need to prepare? 3. Some large businesses have adopted Invoiceless pricing for business-to-business transactions. What do you think are the barriers, if any, to its use in sales to consumers? 4. How could an employee embezzle funds by issuing an unauthorized sales credit memo if the appropriate segregation of duties and authorization controls were not in place?

1. As an accountant, why you need to study the revenue cycle? 2. If you are going to audit the cash receipts cycle, what are the things you need to prepare? 3. Some large businesses have adopted Invoiceless pricing for business-to-business transactions. What do you think are the barriers, if any, to its use in sales to consumers? 4. How could an employee embezzle funds by issuing an unauthorized sales credit memo if the appropriate segregation of duties and authorization controls were not in place?

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING

10th Edition

ISBN:9781259964947

Author:Libby

Publisher:Libby

Chapter1: Financial Statements And Business Decisions

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