Financial & Managerial Accounting
Financial & Managerial Accounting
14th Edition
ISBN: 9781337119207
Author: Carl Warren, James M. Reeve, Jonathan Duchac
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Internal Control: Internal control refers to the policies, and plans of the business organization along with other measures with a view to safeguard its assets, encourage the employees to adhere to the plans, to improve on the operational efficiency, and to ensure correct and reliable accounting information. Internal control is a process which ensures continuous reliability of accomplishment of a company’s objectives, related to operations, financial reporting, and in conformity with laws and regulations.

The following are the some of the internal control procedures:

  • Competent personnel, rotating duties, and mandatory vacations
  • Separating responsibilities for related operations
  • Separating operations, custody of assets, and accounting
  • Proofs and security measures

To describe: The internal control procedure that will prevent or detect fraud.

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