...Accounting 504 Case Study 2 Keller Graduate School of Management Prepared by: Purvi Patel Prepared for: Professor Ganesh 3 Oct, 2013 To: LJB Company President From: Purvi Patel, Accounting firm Subject: Evaluation of LJB Company’s Internal Control Structures Date: 3 April 2013 Hello LJB Company President: First, I would like to thank you for hiring my accounting firm to evaluate LJB’s internal controls system. This report will inform you of any new internal control requirements required for LJB to go public, advise you of what the company is doing right, recommend that LJB purchase an indelible ink machine and advise you what areas the company can improve. Introduction After observation LJB’s operations, I have determined LBJ needs to make changes regarding its internal controls system. All publically traded companies operations’ must comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) accounting standards. As cited in by Kimmel (2011), complying with the internal controls practices set forth by the SOX act prevents fraud, encourage efficiency and effectiveness of operations, and insure a company is in compliance with applicable laws. The internal control standards outlined by the SOX act include a control environment, risk assessment control activities, information, communication and monitoring. NEW INTERNAL CONTROL REQUIREMENTS FOR GOING PUBLIC Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), enacted on July 29,2002, is a United States Federal law that imposed new rules...
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...LJB Company: Internal Controls. This proposal will inform the president of the new internal control requirements necessary if the LJB Company is to go public. This proposal will also inform the president of the already properly functioning internal controls, and the purposed purchase of the indelible ink machine. Finally, this proposal will inform the president as to the internal control measures which are not being taken, and thus inadequately protecting the company from becoming a victim of fraud. These topics will covered in order to exemplify what other internal controls are needed, where LJB Company is successfully implementing internal controls, and in what manner internal controls are lacking. One of the first internal controls LJB Company needs to implement is to have a system to separate the duties of the employees, and implement smart hiring practices (i.e. the accountant should not also function as the human resources representative, consequently a convicted child molester was hired). Second is the internal control of comparisons and compliance monitoring. No person or department should be able to completely process a transaction from beginning to end without being cross-checked by another person or department (i.e. the accountant purchases all the supplies and processed payment for these purchases, and he also receives and completes the bank reconciliations) (Harrison, Horngren & Thomas, 2013). Third, is to maintain adequate records, highlighting the importance...
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...LJB Company: Evaluation and Development of Internal Controls Accounting 504 Managerial Use and Analysis Professor Abner 8/10/2014 Evaluation of LJB Company’s current system of internal controls, with recommendations for improvements and an explanation of federal regulations required for the company to go public. Contents Introduction 2 Overview 2 Summary and Conclusion 3 Works Cited 4 Introduction The asked for appraisal of LJB Company's interior controls has been finished and our firm has likewise examined current regulations in regards to traded on an open market firms to help guarantee that your organization makes a smooth move into people in general business in the event that you choose to seek after this alternative. Traded on an open market enterprises are obliged to execute and take after the rules for inward controls and techniques for monetary reporting, put forward by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002. This implies that upper administration and executives at LJB are in charge of guaranteeing that the controls are viable and solid, besides the organization should intermittently use outside examiners that will have the capacity to affirm the exactness of the interior controls. This data is recorded every financial year in the inside control report and will be incorporated as a feature of the yearly Exchange Act report. This demonstration serves to diminish the likelihood of corporate extortion by guaranteeing that all enterprises...
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...Part 2 of Case Study 3 in ACCT504 2. What are the three sections of a cash budget, and what is included in each section? The three major sections of a cash budget are cash receipts, cash disbursement, and financing. A cash receipt includes cash collections from customers; sales to customers, collecting on credit sales, interest made, etc. Cash disbursement is considered anything that is expected to be paid; administrative expenses, inventory purchases, taxes, etc. Financing is the part of the cash budget that is needed in case of a cash deficiency. If a cash budget falls short, the company can borrow money to make up for that amount. Repayment of the financing then also includes the interest that needs to be paid on that amount, (Weygandt, Kieso & Kimmel, 2002). 3. Why is a cash budget so vital to a company? A cash budget is a tool that can be used to manage a company’s cash. This budget will help a company stay focus by determining an appropriate budget, and help the company see if they can or cannot afford a new investment; or if and how much of financing may be needed. 4. What are the five basic principles of cash management that a company can follow in order to improve its chances of having adequate cash? The five principles are: Increase the speed of collection on receivables; which means that the company will be able to use those funds quicker. Next, inventory levels should be kept low, which also keeps the cost of storage lower and prevents from...
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...Case Study 2 -Internal Control Due by Sunday of week 5, 11:59PM, Mountain Time LJB Company, a local distributor, has asked your accounting firm to evaluate their system of internal controls because they are planning to go public in the future. The President wants to be aware of any new regulations required of his company if they go public so he met with a colleague of yours at a local restaurant. The President of the company explained the current system of internal controls to your colleague. Your colleague has since been promoted to a tax position so she has passed on the information below so you can generate recommendations for the partner at your accounting firm to share with the President of LJB Company. Since LJB Company is a relatively lean organization, they have a lot of faith in their long-term employees. They have one accountant who serves as Treasurer and Controller which streamlines many of their processes. In this dual role, he purchases all of the supplies and pays for these purchases. He also receives the checks and completes the monthly bank reconciliation. The accountant is so busy that the company handles petty cash a bit differently. All employees have access to the petty cash in a desk drawer and are asked to only place a note if they use any of the cash. The accountant has recently started using pre-numbered invoices and wants to buy an indelible ink machine to print their checks. The President is waiting to hear from you if this is a necessary purchase...
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...Management ACCT504 Student Success Guide 1 Table of Contents Why a success guide? ................................................................................................................................. 3 What makes accounting challenging? ........................................................................................................ 3 How should I approach the course? ........................................................................................................... 3 Threaded Discussions.............................................................................................................................. 4 Homework Assignments ......................................................................................................................... 4 Course Project ......................................................................................................................................... 5 Midterm Exam ........................................................................................................................................ 5 Final Exam ............................................................................................................................................... 5 What resources are available? .................................................................................................................... 5 2 ...
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...Case Study (Chapter 1, page 17) Question 1 What are the real problems that the customer is highlighting? Firstly, the problem that customer highlighting is automatic debiting the customer account by way of penalty. This action cause the customer has to rethink his errant financial way. The bank should having a notice or inform to their customers before debiting any penalty. This may cause many of customers that face the financial problem to fall into difficulty. Besides, the customer notices he cannot contact to employee over the time. The customers are confronted by the impersonal ever-changing, pre-recorded, faceless entity which the bank has become. The customers want to deal with a flesh and blood person but not the automated voice phone system. This impersonal conversation will make customer loss of confident about what the customer inquire. Moreover, customer will get charge for the advertising material sent by bank. It charges for $2.00 per page customer read. For the bank nominated contact, that will be billed at $5 per minute. Bank should be let the customer know early for the reading fees or ask for customer permission whether having interest about the advertising material. If not, bank should not send to them. This may causes the customer read on it unconsciously. To helping the customer, customer service should not be charge. Lastly, the problem is the automated voice phone system of the bank. The customer contact to the bank need to go through very long...
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...Y’Lonn James Yolanda Serrano ACCT504-10563 Case Study #2 02/05/2016 Situation a. Missing Internal Controls: Monitoring control is the missing internal control weakness. This monitoring provides “eyes and ears”, so that no one person or group of persons can process a transaction completely without being seen and checked by another person or group. This control involves understanding how companies monitors its control and how effective the monitoring is. The clerk should not be the only person who maintains the entire inventory. Segregation of duties is also missing. Segregation of duties is one of the steps that decrease the likelihood of theft. Segregation of duties prevents a breakdown in a key element of controls, such as improper segregation of duties and/or improper access to assets. Or it might result from a weak control environment. In the absence of the segregation of duties, the clerk has opportunity to steal. Problems: Can record inaccurate information since nobody is there to double check Theft Solution: Put a supervisor in place to for oversight until the cashier is adequate. Implement check and balances by preventing one person from processing transactions. Situation b. Missing Internal Controls: Adequate records, bookkeeping, and Authorization: Nicole is a part of a successful growing business, but does not book keep and provide any reports for the sales team. Problem: Not being able to accurately account for what is...
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...ACCT504 Case Study 2 1. Inform the president of any new internal control requirements if the company decides to go public. (7 points) I would inform the president of the following controls to make the company better. Background checks for employees should be number one to avoid any issues down the line. The idea is to install some type of filters that automatically checks for strange behaviors. The president should also considered, 2. Advise the president of what the company is doing right (they are doing some things well), and also recommend to the president whether or not they should buy the indelible ink machine. When you advise the president, please be sure to reference the applicable internal-control principle that applies. (13 points) the accountant do multiple jobs is not probably a good idea. It sounds like the company is trying to budget themselves to a minimum. At first it sounds like a good idea, but guess what? – We are humans and need a break once in a while otherwise we will go to an extreme where we could overload. It is good to have multitasked persons in your company, but the employer also needs to act and decide when enough is enough. 3. Advise the president of what the company is doing wrong (they are definitely doing some things poorly). Please be sure to include the internal-control principle that is being violated along with a recommendation for improvement. (20 points) the company needs to be more involved and take actions...
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...Case Study 2 – Internal Control ACCT504: Accounting and Finance: Managerial Use and Analysis If LJB Company is serious about going public then you all need to make sure you are folling the new internal conrol provisions of Sarbanes-Oxley Act that SEC implemented. This says that management needs to report on internal conrol over financial reporting and certifiaction of disclosure in Exchange Act periodic reports. Under the finacl rules, management annual internal control report will have to contain a statement of management’s responsibility for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting for the company; a statement identifying the frameworkd used byt management to evaluate the effectiveness of this internal control; management’s assessment of the effectiveness of this internal control as of the end of the company’s fiscal year; and a statement that its autitor has issued an attestation report on mangement’s assesssment (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission). Implementing five primary componants of internal control would help meet these requirement; a control enviornment, risk assessment, control activities, information and communication and monitoring (Kimel pg 338). LJB is already doing a good job at having some physical controls in place by making sure the checks are kept in a safe over the weekend which keeps company funds safe and controls theft as well as by pr-numbering invoices so that documentation...
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...ACCT504 Week 1 Objectives (JAN15) 1 of 2 https://devry.equella.ecollege.com/file/c3a70b64-5599-41cb-be31-a270... Print Given an annual report, the student should be able to read, understand, analyze, and explain a A company’s Balance Sheet to other decision makers and use the knowledge and skills to make business decisions. Key Concepts Understand the environment of financial reporting in the United States and explain the importance of generally accepted accounting principles. Explain the meaning and purpose of a balance sheet and the items that appear in the balance sheet. Determine the interrelationship among the basic financial statements. Analyze the relationship between certain items in the balance sheet and the income statement with the help of ratio analysis. Evaluate the way that different assets, liabilities, and stockholders' equity items are presented in a balance sheet. Given an annual report, the student should be able to read, understand, analyze, and explain a B company’s Income Statement to other decision makers and use the knowledge and skills to make business decisions. Key Concepts Explain the meaning and purpose of an income statement and the items that appear in the income statement. Determine the interrelationship among the basic financial statements. Analyze the relationship between certain items in the balance sheet and the income statement with the help of ratio analysis. Evaluate the way that different revenues, expenses...
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...Week-2 Case Study ACCT504 Acct Fin: Managerial Use Analysis Callistus Wong Professor Saad November 27, 2015 Situation A. In evaluating the internal control over inventory for the Williams Oil Services Company, an auditor learns that the warehouse receiving clerk is responsible for ordering parts for supply inventory use in drilling services, counts the inventory when received at the dock, records the receipts into the inventory ledger, and takes the annual inventory, No supervisor reviews the receiving clerk’s work. Missing Internal Control Characteristic: The important missing factor is that same person is responsible for conducting all the activities of inventory. He is responsible for ordering parts, counting the inventory, recording inventory ledger and taking up of annual stock. Problem of the Firm: The firm is not having any internal control mechanism to check the authenticity of documents and physical inventory of stores. Same person who might encourage any person to commit a willful fraud is performing all the duties. Proposed Solution: Segregation of duties is one of the methods of internal which helps in preventing and reducing the occurrence of frauds and errors. It is done by segregating the duties in a department and by ensuring that no single person is having control on all the transactions. Duties are divided into four general categories: Authorization Record keeping Custody Reconciliation. Different employees should perform all these major...
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...The ACCT504 Final Exam will be an online open-book, open-notes, open-computer exam with a time limit of three hours and 30 minutes. It will be worth 250 points or 25% of your course grade. The Final Exam is two pages long and will consist of 14 multiple-choice questions worth five points each and six essays worth 30 points. Some of the multiple-choice questions are problem-based. Of the six essays, five of the essays are problem-based since this is an Accounting course. Terminal Course Objectives A, B, C, D, E, F, and G are all addressed on this exam. You should review the following concepts for this exam. For the multiple choice questions worth a total of 70 points, you should know: 1. The characteristics of the corporate form of business. 2. About the term "cash dividend". 3. Which accounts have debit or credit balances. 4. The difference between cash-basis versus accrual-basis of accounting. 5. The meaning and implications of using FIFO, LIFO, and weighted average cost-flow assumptions. 6. How to calculate depreciation using the straight-line method. 7. The journal entry for the issuance of bonds (at par, discount, or premium) and for the issuance of stock (at par or above par). 8. How to determine the market value of a bond. 9. The various adjustments that are made to net income in arriving at net cash flow from operating activities. 10. The different tools of financial statement analysis, and how each tool is used, as well...
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...Case Study 2 ACCT504-Managerial Accounting and Finance Professor Dediemar February 10, 2014 Table of Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………3 Evaluation of Internal Controls at LBJ Company………………………..4 Efficiency of LBJ Company………..……………………………………5 Inefficient Practices at LBJ………………………………………………5 Recommendation to Purchase Indelible Ink Machine…………………….6 Conclusion……………………………………………………………….7 Work Cited...…………………………………………………………….8 To: LBJ Company President From: Duc Nguyen, Accounting and Consulting Subject: Evaluation of LJB Company’s Internal Control Structures Date: February 10, 2013 Introduction In this assessment we will attempt to evaluate and address the efficiency or inadequacy of the internal control procedures used within LBJ Company. Internal controls are a system of checks and balances designed to detect and prevent fraud and errors. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires U.S. companies to enhance their systems of internal control (Kimmel 186). Complying with the internal controls practices set forth by SOX Act prevents fraud, encourage efficiency and effectiveness of operations, and ensures a company’s compliance with applicable laws. Furthermore we see that because of Sox many companies are improving the quality of its financial reporting. Under SOX, all publicly traded U.S. companies are required to maintain a sufficient system of internal control. Corporate executives and boards of directors must ensure that these controls are reliable and...
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...Internal Controls LJB Company Name Submitted to ACCT504 Accounting & Finance: Managerial Use & Analysis School: Submitted: Executive Summary This report provides an analysis and evaluation of the internal controls at the LJB Company and what is required before going public. We will touch base on IT Governance, Sarbanes-Oxley and COBIT, highlight items that LJB is doing right as well as those items LJB is doing wrong and a few improvements along the way. Company Overview LJB Company is a distributor of equipment for the surrounding areas. LJB is said to be a relatively lean organization which means that the company looks for ways to eliminate any unnecessary resources to operate at expected levels. LJB is looking to go public in the future. Internal Controls / IT Governance / Sarbanes-Oxley What are internal controls? The internal controls for any business consist of policies and procedures designed to provide management with reasonable assurance that the company achieves its objectives and goals. For any organization, public, private or governmental, there are benefits to using internal controls. * To ensure the confidence of the organizations’ constituencies (boards, employees, patients, donors, and students). * To assure there are checks and balances wherever there’s opportunity for mistakes or miscommunications. * To mitigate information technology risk protecting confidential records. * To help monitor assets of geographically...
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