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Author: Ray Whittington, Kurt Pany
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 13, Problem 32COQ
Which of the following is an internal control weakness related to factory equipment?
- (1) Checks issued in payment of purchases of equipment are not signed by the controller.
- (2) All purchases of factory equipment are required to be made by the department in need of the equipment.
- (3) Factory equipment replacements are generally made when estimated useful lives, as indicated in
depreciation schedules, have expired. - (4) Proceeds from sales of fully depreciated equipment are credited to other income.
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