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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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What is separation of duties?
When are the only times the Petty Cash account is used in a journal entry?
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?
Preparing a bank reconciliation and journal entries
This problem continues the Crystal Clear Cleaning problem begun in Chapter 2 and
continued through Chapter 6.
In March 2019, Crystal Clear Cleaning opened a new checking account at First
Regional Bank. The bank statement dated March 31, 2019, for Crystal Clear
Cleaning follows:
Beginning Balance, March 1, 2019
Deposits and other credits:
Mar. 2
10
18
20
23 EFT Peg’s Restaurant(1)
(1) Peg’s Restaurant is a customer making a payment on account.
(3) Texas Energy is a utility provider.
(2) Check Art is a company that prints business checks (considered a
bank expense) for Crystal Clear Cleaning.
\(33,000
900
19,000
50,000
350
Checks and other debits:
Mar. 2 EFT to Check Art(2)
Ending balance, March 31, 2019
\) 0
31 Interest Revenue 50
5 Ck#235
9 Ck#237
9 Ck#236
26 Ck#239
10
2,400
1,500
2,900
2,000
28 EFT to Texas Energy(3) 130
29 Ck#240 300
31 Bank service charge 25
103,300
(9,265)
$ 94,035
Crystal Clear Cleaning’s Cash account in the general ledger shows the following
transactions for March:
Cash—First Regional Bank Checking Account
Balance
Deposit
Deposit
Deposit
Deposit
2,400
2,900
1,500
400
2,000
94,870
Mar. 2
10
18
20
31 Deposit
33,000
900
19,000
50,000
1,770
Mar. 2
4
5
10
21
Ck#235
Ck#236
Ck#237
Ck#238
Ck#239
300
300
23
29
Ck#240
Ck#241
Balance
Requirements
1. Prepare the bank reconciliation at March 31, 2019.
2. Journalize any required entries from the bank reconciliation. Post to the CashT-account to verify the balance of the account matches the adjusted book balancefrom the bank reconciliation.
Controlling petty cash Just Hangin’ Night Club maintains an imprest petty cash fund of \(150, which is under the control of Sandra Morgan. At March 31, the fund holds \)14 cash and petty cash tickets for office supplies, \(128, and delivery expense, \)15.
Requirements
1. Explain how an imprest petty cash system works.
2. Journalize the establishment of the petty cash fund on March 1 and the replenishing of the fund on March 31.
3. Prepare a T-account for Petty Cash and post to the account. What is the balance of the Petty Cash account at all times?
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