Chapter 7, Problem 1SC

INTRODUCTION Bryce Commings was assistant controller for Waterton Company, and his responsibilities included bank relations, accounts receivable collection, and cash management. From his business readings he was aware that many wall street economists were forecasting a recession for late 2019 into middle 2020. He remembered that in the last recession Waterton was criticized for weakened liquidity as shown on its balance sheet.   He ran a simulation with improved accounts receivable and inventory turnovers, Bryce was disappointed with the overall liquidity picture.  He was concerned that he was missing something.  Maybe he did not understand the relationships among the liquidity measures or maybe he had an error in his worksheet or maybe financial relationships had changed in the past ten years.   He assumed if cash came in faster with better collections and more efficient inventory control, liquidity metrics would improve.  The eight conventional liquidity measures were current ratio,…

Question  ABC Limited is a manufacturing firm with a workforce of more than 100 employees. Mr Peter has recently joined the firm as the account payable clerk. Miss Emma is the accounting department head, and she is concerned about the cash disbursement system. Therefore, she has asked Mr Peter to analyse the firm's cash disbursement system and identify the internal control weaknesses from the system. Following is the description of the cash disbursement system. In the temporary file, the account payable clerk receives the supplier's invoice and reconciles it with the purchase order. The accounts payable clerk records the purchase in the purchases journal from the clerk's computer terminal and records the liability by adding a record to accounts payable subsidiary ledger. The clerk then updates the inventory control and accounts payable control accounts in the general ledger. The purchases order and invoice are later filed in the department. Each day, the clerk visually searches the…

(Receivables Management) As the manager of the accounts receivable department for Beavis Leather Goods, Ltd., you recently noticed that Kelly Collins, your accounts receivable clerk who is paid $1,200 per month, has been wearing unusually tasteful and expensive clothing. (This is Beavis’s first year in business.) This morning, Collins drove up to work in abrand new Lexus.Naturally suspicious by nature, you decide to test the accuracy of the accounts receivable balance of $192,000 as shown in the ledger. The following information is available for your first year (precisely 9 months ended September 30, 2017) in business.(1) Collections from customers $188,000(2) Merchandise purchased 360,000(3) Ending merchandise inventory 90,000(4) Goods are marked to sell at 40% above cost.InstructionsAssuming all sales were made on account, compute the ending accounts receivable balance that should appear in the ledger, noting any apparent shortage. Then, draft a memo dated October 3, 2017, to Mark…

Bramble Company is a very profitable small business. It has not, however, given much consideration to internal control. For example, in an attempt to keep clerical and office expenses to a minimum, the company has combined the jobs of cashier and bookkeeper. As a result, Bret Turrin handles all cash receipts, keeps the accounting records, and prepares the monthly bank reconciliations.The balance per the bank statement on October 31, 2020, was $18,620. Outstanding checks were No. 62 for $140.00, No. 183 for $187, No. 284 for $261.50, No. 862 for $211.40, No. 863 for $244.00, and No. 864 for $169.40. Included with the statement was a credit memorandum of $114.80 indicating the collection of a note receivable for Daisey Company by the bank on October 25. This memorandum has not been recorded by Daisey.The company’s ledger showed one Cash account with a balance of $21,980.00. The balance included undeposited cash on hand. Because of the lack of internal controls, Bret took for personal use…

Pharoah Company is a very profitable small business. It has not, however, given much consideration to internal control. For example, in an attempt to keep clerical and office expenses to a minimum, the company has combined the jobs of cashier and bookkeeper. As a result, Bret Turrin handles all cash receipts, keeps the accounting records, and prepares the monthly bank reconciliations.The balance per the bank statement on October 31, 2022, was $20,286.00. Outstanding checks were No. 62 for $166.00, No. 183 for $178.00, No. 284 for $291.00, No. 862 for $200.00, No. 863 for $275.00, and No. 864 for $212.00. Included with the statement was a credit memorandum of $203.00 indicating the collection of a note receivable for Pharoah Company by the bank on October 25. This memorandum has not been recorded by Pharoah.The company’s ledger showed one Cash account with a balance of $23,744.00. The balance included undeposited cash on hand. Because of the lack of internal controls, Bret took for…

Pharoah Company is a very profitable small business. It has not, however, given much consideration to internal control. For example, in an attempt to keep clerical and office expenses to a minimum, the company has combined the jobs of cashier and bookkeeper. As a result, Bret Turrin handles all cash receipts, keeps the accounting records, and prepares the monthly bank reconciliations.The balance per the bank statement on October 31, 2022, was $20,286.00. Outstanding checks were No. 62 for $166.00, No. 183 for $178.00, No. 284 for $291.00, No. 862 for $200.00, No. 863 for $275.00, and No. 864 for $212.00. Included with the statement was a credit memorandum of $203.00 indicating the collection of a note receivable for Pharoah Company by the bank on October 25. This memorandum has not been recorded by Pharoah.The company’s ledger showed one Cash account with a balance of $23,744.00. The balance included undeposited cash on hand. Because of the lack of internal controls, Bret took for…

Researching GAAP Situation Hamilton Company operates in an industry with numerous competitors. It is experiencing a shortage of cash and decides to obtain money from a large bank by using some of its receivables as collateral. Hamilton pledges 5100,000 of its receivables, is charged a 12% fee on this amount, and notifies these credit customers to make their payments directly to the bank. Hamilton transfers the receivables to the bank, and the bank assumes the servicing activities, but Hamilton is responsible for all bad debts which it reasonably estimates to be 2% of the receivables amount. When the balance of the receivables pledged is reduced to 3,000, Hamilton is required to repurchase the receivables, notify the remaining credit customers to make payments to it, and reassume the servicing activities. The bank has the right to sell the receivables, except to Hamiltons major competitor. Hamiltons president has asked you how to account for (and record) this transaction. Directions Research the related generally accepted accounting principles and prepare a short memo to the president that answers his question. Cite your reference and applicable paragraph numbers.

Judy Baresford, the store manager of Comfort Futons, noticed that the amount of time the two bookkeepers were spending on accounts receivable, accounts payable, and cash receipts was increasing due to the stores increase in sales. A friend of Judys who is also a store manager suggested that she might want to have some special journals designed that would reduce the amount of work involved in the day-to-day bookkeeping at her store. Judy approached Jon Fortner and Sue Stavio, the bookkeepers, and asked them to come up with a proposal for special journals. During lunch, Jon told Sue he thought designing special journals would be a lot of work and it was not in his job description. Sue told him not to worry because she would just copy pages of special journals from her accounting textbook and they could submit these journals as their own design. Jon liked the idea and they agreed to meet the next night, scan the journals into Word, and submit them to Judy the following morning. 1. Do you think Sues suggestion is unethical? Why or why not? 2. In using the generic special journals from Sues accounting textbook, what possible problems can you foresee? 3. If you were Judy, how would you respond to Sue and Jons plan?

Daisey Company is a very profitable small business. It has not, however given much consideration to internal control. For example, in an attempt to keep clerical and office expenses to a minimum, the company has combined the jobs of cashier and book-keeper. As a result, Bret Turrin handles all cash receipts, keeps the accounting records, and prepares the monthly bank reconciliations. The balance per the bank statement on October 31, 2020, was $18,380. Outstanding checks were No. 62 for $140.75, No. 183 for $180, No. 284 for $253.25, No. 862 for $190.71, No. 863 for $226.80, and No. 864 for $165.28. Included with the statement was a credit memorandum of $185 indicating the collection of a note receivable for Daisey Company by the bank on October 25. This memorandum has not been recorded by Daisey. The company's ledger showed one Cash account with a balance of $21,877.72. The balance included undeposited cash on hand. Because of the lack of internal controls, Bret took for personal use…