Misstatements which are normally discovered as a part of the tests of a bank reconciliation:
Failure to bill a customer
An embezzlement of cash by interception of cash receipts from customers before they are recorded, with the account charged off as a bad debt
Failure to include a check that has not cleared the bank, even though it has been recorded in the cash disbursements journal
Cash received by the client subsequent to the balance sheet date but recorded as cash receipts in the current year
Duplicate payment of a vendor’s invoice
Improper payments of officers’ personal expenditures
Payment for raw materials that were not received
Payment to an employee for more hours worked
Payment of interest to a related party for an amount in excess of the going rate
Deposits recorded as cash receipts near the end of the year, deposited in the bank in the same month, and included in the bank reconciliation as a deposit in transit
Payments on notes payable debited directly to the bank balance by the bank but not entered in the client’s records