St. James Clothiers: Evaluation of Manual & IT-Based Sales Accounting System Risks INTRODUCTION St. James Clothiers is a high-end clothing store located in a small Tennessee town. St. James only has one store, which is located in the shopping district by the town square. St. James enjoys the reputation of being the place to buy nice clothing in the local area. The store is in its twentieth year of operation. The owner, Sally St. James, recently decided to convert from a relatively simple manual sales system to an IT-based sales application package. The sales application software will be purchased from a software vendor. As the audit senior on the St. James engagement, you recently asked one of your staff auditors, Joe …show more content…
James Clothiers | |Narrative Description of Manual-Based Sales Accounting System | |For the Year Ended December 31, 2005 | |This narrative is based on discussions with client personnel at St. James Clothiers on June 29, | |2005, in conjunction with the audit of the December 31, 2005, financial statements. This | |narrative describes the manual sales system in place at the client during the year ended | |December 31,
In order to ensure responsible accounting practices Peyton Approved will be investing in QuickBooks Pro; this accounting software will allow us to make sure all the steps are being followed correctly. We have also hired Fusion Group; Fusion Group is an accounting firm that specializes in new business owners to help with the accounting process. As a company we are also taking classes to get a better understanding of accounting, getting an understanding of why the accounting cycle is important, what the numbers mean for the company, whether or not we are in debt, we owe money, but also being able to get a true sense of the monthly profit (Scheid, J., (2011).
Thank you for the opportunity to assess your sales data in order to provide recommendations for increasing your sales. The analysis and recommendations below are based on the data you provided, which covers a period from May 2004 through June 2006. The analysis below is based on this data alone. Therefore, our recommendations should be tempered by your knowledge of business realities and your market. Please let us know if we can answer any questions concerning the analysis or the recommendations provided.
Preferred Consulting will install QuickBooks 2015 Pro software on your computer’s hard drive. Next, we will setup Cutting Edge as a sole proprietor organization that is engaged in service and product sales, so the software knows how to account for all the transactions and taxes your company may incur during the year. Then we will enter your customers, vendors, supplies, and inventory that your business uses to conduct daily operations. Every transaction your business performs will be entered using the appropriate section of QuickBooks Pro 2015, and the amounts are automatically distributed to the selected chart of accounts. The chart of accounts records every transaction that is entered and keeps running totals of revenues, expenses, equity, liabilities and inventory.
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