Chapter 7: Q9RQ (page 411)
How do businesses control cash receipts by mail?
The businesses use four steps to control the cash receipts.
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Preparing a bank reconciliation and journal entries
The May cash records of Donald Insurance follow:
Cash Receipts Cash Payments
Date Cash Debit Check No. Cash Credit
May 4 \( 4,230 1416 \) 890
9 520 1417 120
14 530 1418 630
17 1,950 1419 1,090
31 1,840 1420 1,420
1421 900
1422 670
Donald’s Cash account shows a balance of \(17,750 at May 31. On May 31, Donald
Insurance received the following bank statement:
Deposits and other Credits:
May 10
May 1
May 5
May 15
May 18
May 22
Checks and other Debits:
8
11 (check no. 1416)
19
22 (check no. 1417)
29 (check no. 1418)
31 (check no. 1419)
May
May
May
May
May
May
May 31
Ending Balance
Beginning Balance
EFT \) 450
NSF
EFT
BC
\( 18,730
1,700
890
1,100
120
520
4,230
530
1,950
\) 14,400
9,380
375
630
1,900
35 (5,050)
Bank Statement for May
SC
Explanations: BC–bank collection; EFT–electronic funds transfer;
NSF–nonsufficient funds checks; SC–service charge
Additional data for the bank reconciliation follow:
a. The EFT credit was a receipt of rent. The EFT debit was an insurance
payment.
b. The NSF check was received from a customer.
c. The \(1,700 bank collection was for a note receivable.
d. The correct amount of check 1419, for rent expense, is \)1,900. Donald’s controller
mistakenly recorded the check for $1,090.
Requirements
1. Prepare the bank reconciliation of Donald Insurance at May 31, 2018.
2. Journalize any required entries from the bank reconciliation
Evaluating internal control over cash payments Gary’s Great Cars purchases high-performance auto parts from a Nebraska vendor. Dave Simon, the accountant for Gary’s, verifies receipt of merchandise and then prepares, signs, and mails the check to the vendor.
Requirements
1. Identify the internal control weakness over cash payments.
2. What could the business do to correct the weakness?
Question: What is the difference between an internal auditor and an external auditor?
Levon Helm was a kind of one-person mortgage broker. He would drive around Tennessee looking for homes that had second mortgages, and if the criteria were favorable, he would offer to buy the second mortgage for “cash on the barrelhead.” Helm bought low and sold high, making sizable profits. Being a small operation, he employed one person, Cindy Patterson, who did all his bookkeeping. Patterson was an old family friend, and he trusted her so implicitly that he never checked up on the ledgers or the bank reconciliations. At some point, Patterson started “borrowing” from the business and concealing her transactions by booking phony expenses. She intended to pay it back someday, but she got used to the extra cash and couldn’t stop. By the time the scam was discovered, she had drained the company of funds that it owed to many of its creditors. The company went bankrupt, Patterson did some jail time, and Helm lost everything
Requirements
What are the steps taken to ensure control over purchases and payments by check?
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