Horngren's Financial & Managerial Accounting (6th Global Edition)
Horngren's Financial & Managerial Accounting (6th Global Edition)
6th Edition
ISBN: 9780134486833
Author: Tracie L. Miller-Nobles, Brenda L. Mattison
Publisher: Pearson Global Edition
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Chapter 7, Problem 11RQ
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Petty cash fund: Petty cash fund is a fund established to pay insignificant amounts like postage, office supplies, and lunches. In day-to-day life, it becomes difficult to use checks for daily expenses. Therefore, companies maintain some minimum amount of funds in the hand for such daily expenses. These funds are called as petty cash funds. These funds are managed by custodian. This system is otherwise called as imprest system.

To identify: The controls needed to secure the petty cash fund.

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