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Chapter 7: Q18RQ (page 412)
What does the cash ratio help determine, and how is it calculated?
To determine the ability of the company to pay current liabilities.
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Recording credit card and debit card sales
Restaurants do a large volume of business with credit and debit cards. Suppose Summer,
Sand, and Castles Resort restaurant had these transactions on January 28, 2018:
National Express credit card sales $ 10,800
ValueCard debit card sales 10,000
Requirements
1. Suppose Summer, Sand, and Castles Resort’s processor charges a 2% fee anddeposits sales net of the fee. Journalize these sales transactions for the restaurant.
2. Suppose Summer, Sand, and Castles Resort’s processor charges a 2% fee anddeposits sales using the gross method. Journalize these sales transactions for therestaurant.
Accounting for petty cash transactions
Suppose that on September 1, Cool Gyrations, a disc jockey service, create a petty
cash fund with an imprest balance of \(350. During September, Ruth Mangan, fund
custodian, signs the following petty cash tickets:
Petty Cash
Ticket Number Item Amount
1 Postage for package received \) 25
2 Office party 10
3 Two boxes of stationery 20
4 Printer cartridges 15
5 Business dinner 65
On September 30, prior to replenishment, the fund contains these tickets plus cash of
\(210. The accounts affected by petty cash payments are Office Supplies, Entertainment
Expense, and Postage Expense.
Requirements
1. On September 30, how much cash should this petty cash fund hold before it is
replenished?
2. Journalize all required entries to (a) create the fund and (b) replenish it. Include
explanations.
3. Make the entry on October 1 to increase the fund balance to \)425. Include an
Explanation
Evaluating internal control over cash receipts Dogtopia sells pet supplies and food and handles all sales with a cash register. The cash register displays the amount of the sale. It also shows the cash received and any change returned to the customer. The register also produces a customer receipt butkeeps no internal record of the transactions. At the end of the day, the clerk counts the cash in the register and gives it to the cashier for deposit in the company bank account.
Requirements
1. Identify the internal control weakness over cash receipts.
2. What could you do to correct the weakness?
Correcting internal control weaknesses
Each of the following situations has an internal control weakness.
a. Upside-Down Applications develops custom programs to customers’ specifications.
Recently, development of a new program stopped while the programmers
redesigned Upside-Down’s accounting system. Upside-Down’s accountants could
have performed this task.
b. Norma Rottler has been your trusted employee for 24 years. She performs all cashhandling
and accounting duties. Norma just purchased a new luxury car and a new
home in an expensive suburb. As owner of the company, you wonder how she
can afford these luxuries because you pay her only $30,000 a year and she has no
source of outside income.
c. Izzie Hardwoods, a private company, falsified sales and inventory figures in order
to get an important loan. The loan went through, but Izzie later went bankrupt and
could not repay the bank.
d. The office supply company where Pet Grooming Goods purchases sales receipts
recently notified Pet Grooming Goods that its documents were not prenumbered.
Howard Mustro, the owner, replied that he never uses receipt numbers.
e. Discount stores such as Cusco make most of their sales in cash, with the remainder
in credit card sales. To reduce expenses, one store manager ceases purchasing
fidelity bonds on the cashiers.
f. Cornelius’s Corndogs keeps all cash receipts in an empty box for a week because
the owner likes to go to the bank on Tuesdays when Joann is working.
Requirements
1. Identify the missing internal control characteristics in each situation.
2. Identify the possible problem caused by each control weakness.
3. Propose a solution to each internal control problem.
Question: What is the difference between an internal auditor and an external auditor?
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