Henri is the owner of the “Chez Henri” Restaurant. It is not a large restaurant (78 seats). For this reason, it does not have many people on the payroll. Henri has been handling the general manager’s responsibilities and has a good friend working half a day, five days a week, to take care of such matters as bank deposits, preparing accounts payable and payroll checks, and all other routine office and bookkeeping work. Henri is not concerned about the honesty of the person, but he has learned from courses he has taken that any company, however small, needs to have some internal controls. REQUIRED Write a short report to Henri pointing out three specific areas where you believe controls might need to be implemented. For each of the three areas, advise Henri what might happen if a dishonest bookkeeper was hired and how internal control can be implemented to prevent dishonesty. Henri would like to prepare the coming year restaurant budget himself. Please, help Henri understand the advantages of a flexible budget giving him some real-life practical examples.
The Effect Of Prepaid Taxes On Assets And Liabilities
Many businesses estimate tax liability and make payments throughout the year (often quarterly). When a company overestimates its tax liability, this results in the business paying a prepaid tax. Prepaid taxes will be reversed within one year but can result in prepaid assets and liabilities.
Final Accounts
Financial accounting is one of the branches of accounting in which the transactions arising in the business over a particular period are recorded.
Ledger Posting
A ledger is an account that provides information on all the transactions that have taken place during a particular period. It is also known as General Ledger. For example, your bank account statement is a general ledger that gives information about the amount paid/debited or received/ credited from your bank account over some time.
Trial Balance and Final Accounts
In accounting we start with recording transaction with journal entries then we make separate ledger account for each type of transaction. It is very necessary to check and verify that the transaction transferred to ledgers from the journal are accurately recorded or not. Trial balance helps in this. Trial balance helps to check the accuracy of posting the ledger accounts. It helps the accountant to assist in preparing final accounts. It also helps the accountant to check whether all the debits and credits of items are recorded and posted accurately. Like in a balance sheet debit and credit side should be equal, similarly in trial balance debit balance and credit balance should tally.
Adjustment Entries
At the end of every accounting period Adjustment Entries are made in order to adjust the accounts precisely replicate the expenses and revenue of the current period. It is also known as end of period adjustment. It can also be referred as financial reporting that corrects the errors made previously in the accounting period. The basic characteristics of every adjustment entry is that it affects at least one real account and one nominal account.
Henri is the owner of the “Chez Henri” Restaurant. It is not a large restaurant (78 seats). For this reason, it does not have many people on the payroll. Henri has been handling the general manager’s responsibilities and has a good friend working half a day, five days a week, to take care of such matters as bank deposits, preparing accounts payable and payroll checks, and all other routine office and bookkeeping work.
Henri is not concerned about the honesty of the person, but he has learned from courses he has taken that any company, however small, needs to have some internal controls.
REQUIRED
- Write a short report to Henri pointing out three specific areas where you believe controls might need to be implemented. For each of the three areas, advise Henri what might happen if a dishonest bookkeeper was hired and how internal control can be implemented to prevent dishonesty.
- Henri would like to prepare the coming year restaurant budget himself. Please, help Henri understand the advantages of a flexible budget giving him some real-life practical examples.
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