Financial & Managerial Accounting
Financial & Managerial Accounting
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ISBN: 9781285866307
Author: Carl Warren, James M. Reeve, Jonathan Duchac
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 7, Problem 7.5CP

(1)

To determine

Bank reconciliation: Bank statement is prepared by bank. The company maintains its own records from its perspective. This is why the cash balance per bank and cash balance per books seldom agree. Bank reconciliation is the statement prepared by company to remove the differences and disagreement between cash balance per bank and cash balance per books.

Journal entry: Journal entry is a set of economic events which can be measured in monetary terms. These are recorded chronologically and systematically.

Debit and credit rules:

  • Debit an increase in asset account, increase in expense account, decrease in liability account, and decrease in stockholders’ equity accounts.
  • Credit decrease in asset account, increase in revenue account, increase in liability account, and increase in stockholders’ equity accounts.

To determine: The amount cashier stole from P Company.

(2)

To determine

To find: ways how cashier has attempted to conceal the theft.

(3)

To determine

To indentify: Two major weakness in the internal controls and two recommendations to improve the internal controls.

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