PDCA Outline
Plan
The first step of the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle is plan. The planning step of the cycle is extremely important and crucial to the success of the project. I undertook this exact issue as a process improvement project early on in my career and already went through the exercise of analyzing the account activity and assigning a risk score to each and every balance sheet account. At the time, there were 854 individual balance sheet accounts that needed reconciled. Currently this count has grown to 1,047, which means that an additional 193 accounts would need analyzed. The plan for this project now needs to consist of cursory review of the previously assigned accounts and a more in-depth analysis of the additional 193
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There is no reason to waste resources reconciling an account that is no longer being used. The next step of 5S that is beneficial to the process is straightening. The accounts should be straightened into broader categories, rather than looking that them individually, which saves time and is more efficient. For instance, all cash accounts should be grouped and analyzed together, as they will be handled the same. The work is not done when the sorting and straightening has been completed, nonetheless. The newly sorted and straightened list should continue to be shined, another step of 5S, on a routine basis to make sure there are no changes. As previously mentioned, the controller reserves the right to adjust the reconciliation priority at any time. New accounts are likely to be created that will need sorted and straightened and other accounts will also go inactive. 5S is an ongoing process and the sustainability is one of the S’s. The final S stands for standardize. The account reconciliation process should be standardized. Standardization and uniformity in the reconciliation process and the reconciliation work papers add to the quality of the review. It is much easier for a reviewer or auditor to check reconciliations that are prepared in a consistent fashion.
Do
The ‘Do’ step of the PDCA cycle is where the action of the project really happens. The new reconciliation schedule is implemented during this stage. As previously mentioned some accounts will continue to be
The third part of the action plan will be to assess the progress of changes. This requires measuring current and future performance against past performance, which will need to be assessed more in depth than the initial tracer patient audit. The last portion of the corrective action plan not only assesses the change, but might also include further revisions to the change in policy and procedures if it is found that performance is inconsistent with the standards set forth by the Joint Commission. The part of the plan has four parts that consist of:
This plan includes a short summary of the most important data obtained from the BIA, such as the business unit, responsible manager, process/business function, recovery time objective (RTO), and estimated daily financial losses. Have it approved by senior management. Why? Because it will almost certainly require funding, and your senior management needs to know at least the estimated cost before they can approve it.
The reconciler will reconcile every two days (or as required by you). Search for topic: receiving money in the trust account rules in our policy and procedures.
The warehouse needs to understand their role in rerouting deliveries. The IT group must understand their very important role of backing up of data. Because of this, each department should be reviewing their plan quarterly to allow for updates. The plan should be reviewed each time a major change is made, such as a new location is opened or computer systems are converted.
Step 2: Post from General Journal to General Ledger for all affected accounts on pages 7 to 13.
Objective: Prepare journal entries to account for transactions related to accounts receivable and bad debt using both percentage of sales and the percentage of receivables methods.
In 1973 the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) was established to set the financial accounting standards in the United States of America for nongovernmental entities. These standards are collectively called U.S. Generally accepted Accounting Principles, or U.S. GAAP. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants acknowledge the authority of these standards (FASB, n.d). A “proven, independent due process” is used to collect the viewpoints of the financial statements prepares and users for the constant improvement of these standards. An Accounting Status Update(ASU) is not an authoritative source however documents the amendments to communicate the changes in the FASB Codification for a user to understand the reason and future of those changes (FASB, n.d).
“The nature and extent of planning activities that are necessary depend on the size and complexity of the company, the auditor 's previous experience with the company, and changes in circumstances that occur during the audit. When developing the audit strategy and audit plan, the auditor should evaluate whether the following matters are important
Examine list of accounts previously written off and determine efficacy of follow-up procedures, tracing amounts into accounting records (S‑9).
In “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe the allegory of this story is death, symbolically and literally. The literal portion is about the Red Death and how no one can escape it.
In the planning the financial manager identified the steps that must be taken to fulfill the agency’s objectives
When you have open and honest communication in your company, it will remove any ambiguity and allow your employees to trust the plan, trust the process and most importantly trust the
This project demands significant involvement by IT personnel, Accounting and CIO. Our success is highly dependent on everyone’s efforts. To help achieve a smooth and successful implementation, it will be our responsibility to:
To me, geography is simply the study of the earth. With that being said it breaks down into the study of land, weather, people, the migration of people, their role in altering nature, and the effect of nature on the people.
The company has to be able judge its spending performance. Does not matter what type of company it is, the ability to measure performance using budgets is an important process in any business organisation. Planning helps to understand where business is at present and where it is going to be in the future. Company’s planning process has to involve different developing objectives and prepare