Description
3-20 (Objectives 23-3, 23-4) The following are misstatements that might be found in the client’s year-end cash balance (assume that the balance sheet date is June 30):
- 1. The outstanding checks on the June 30 bank reconciliation were underfooted by $2,000.
- 2. A loan from the bank on June 26 was credited directly to the client’s bank account. The loan was not entered as of June 30.
- 3. A check was omitted from the outstanding check list on the June 30 bank reconciliation. It cleared the bank July 7.
- 4. A check was omitted from the outstanding check list on the bank reconciliation. It cleared the bank September 6.
- 5. Cash receipts collected on accounts receivable from July 1 to July 5 were included as June 29 and 30 cash receipts.
- 6. A bank transfer recorded in the accounting records on July 1 was included as a deposit in transit on June 30.
- 7. A check that was dated June 26 and disbursed in June was not recorded in the cash disbursements journal, but it was included as an outstanding check on June 30.
Required
- a. Assuming that each of these misstatements was intentional (fraud), state the most likely motivation of the person responsible.
- b. What control can be instituted for each fraud to reduce the likelihood of occurrence?
- c. List an audit procedure that can be used to discover each fraud.
Explanation & Answer
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Responses and discussion
a. Probably the person who did this was expecting to get benefits from these misstatements.
Benefits might be for him/her or for an entire organization since most financial statement
frauds occur to increase the value of a company to obtain benefits after selling the
company’s shares. We discard this case to be an accident since there are many dates
reprogrammed and a direct violation to the Business Entity Principle.
b. Internal controls practices can be implemen...