CASE STUDY #2 INTERNAL CONTROLS: WILLIAMS OIL SERVICES SCOTT SALES SERVICES HUMAN RESOURCE ASSISTANT ACCT FIN: MANAGERIAL USE, ANALYSIS PROFESSOR JENNIFER COLEMAN February 7, 2016 Naomi M. Duncan INTRODUCTION Every business has a need for (and should be mandated to implement) Internal Controls. From a mom and pop storefront to a global corporation, fraud and errors (unfortunately rears its ugly head). As defined in businessdictionary.com, Internal Control is a “systematic
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principles of internal control and give an example of each principle that you might observe when picking up your pizza. (Note: It may not be possible to observe all the principles.) 1) Establishment of Responsibility, depending on whether one or more employees are taking the monies from the customer, could cause a problem with the cash register being short. The manager then would not be able to know the person responsible for this. 2) Segregation of Duties, this internal control is where the
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the accounting systems at WorldCom were incompetent to keep up with integration effectively and ultimately paves a way for weak internal control environment. After tips were sent to Cynthia Cooper (Vice President of Internal Audit), she spotted accounting irregularities that the corporate office accounting team had taken $400 million out of the division’s reserve account to boost WorldCom’s consolidated income. Furthermore, Cynthia and her team uncovered major accounting misstatements that hid the
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chances of fraud. * Goods were received and sat on the dock for up to seven day before the receipt was recorded: This will show understatement in the inventory. And it shows overstatement of net income b. Substantive test is the test of account balances to verify the correctness of the amounts they are design to identify errors and irregularities. In this case misstatement of inventory identified would be considered significantly enough to require substantive testing of inventory. In this
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inventory management process. Topic: The Major Functions 4. Once the controls in the inventory system have been tested, the auditor sets the level of control risk. TRUE AACSB: Analytic AICPA BB: Industry AICPA FN: Risk Analysis Blooms: Remember Difficulty: 1 Easy Learning Objective: 13-06 Know how to assess control risk for the inventory system. Topic: Control Risk Assessment 5. The major control procedure for preventing fictitious inventory transactions from being recorded
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EXAM COVER SHEET NOTE: This exam paper may be RETAINED by the student EXAMINATION DETAILS Course Code: Course Description: Date of exam: ACCT1111 Auditing and Assurance Services 28/10/2008 Start time of exam: 9:15 AM Duration of exam: 3hr 15min Total number of pages (incl. this cover sheet) 8 ALLOWABLE MATERIALS AND INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES 1. Write your full name and student number on each examination booklet together with the number of examination books used. Students
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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
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shoulder of a co-worker, Turner gained access to the login information to the payroll system. Turner then added a couple of phony employees to the system, entered a false wage statement, and arranged for their payments to be directly deposited into his account. He then prepared a fake payroll summary to be signed by a supervisor. Additionally, Turner made filing copies of the checks on white paper, unlike the yellow paper
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Learning Team Questions Learning Team E ACC542 Learning Team Questions 1. Listed below are 12 internal control procedures or requirements for the expenditure cycle (purchasing, payroll, accounts payable, and cash disbursements) of a manufacturing enterprise. For each of the following, identify the error or misstatement that would be prevented or detected by its use. * Duties segregated between the cash payments and cash receipts functions. Preventative – segregation of duties ensure
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School of Administrative Studies Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies York University Fall 2013 Course Outline AP/ADMS 4552 3.0 Section A and B Information Systems Audit Term: Fall 2013 COURSE: AP/ADMS 4552 3.0 Sections A and B Information Systems Audit Schedule First day of class: Section A: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 11:30 AM – 2:30 PM, Location: HNE 030 Section B: Thursday, September 12, 2013 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM, Location: HNE 032 REQUIRED COURSE TEXT/READINGS:
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