Cash Receipts Procedure
The mail room has five employees who open and sort all
mail. Each employee has two bins, one for remittance
advices and one for checks. Before separating the two
documents and putting them in their respective bins,
the clerks reconcile the amounts on the checks and remittance
advices.
The remittance advices are sent to the accounting
department, where a clerk records each remittance advice
on a remittance list. The remittance list is then sent
to the cash receipts department. Using the remittance
advices, the accounting clerk updates the customer
accounts receivable on the department PC and files the
advice in the department. At the end of the day the clerk
prepares an account summery on the PC. A hard copy of
the summary is sent to the general ledger department.
The mailroom clerk sends the checks to the cash
receipts department, where a clerk endorses each check
with the words “For Deposit Only.” Next, the clerk reconciles
the checks with the remittance list and records
the cash receipts in the cash receipts journal on the department
PC. Finally, the clerk prepares a deposit slip
and sends it and the checks to the bank.
The general ledger posts the AR summary to general
ledger and files it in the general ledger department.
Required:
a. Create a data flow diagram of the current system.
b. Create a system flowchart of the existing system.
c. Identify the internal control weaknesses in the system.
Use the six categories of physical control activities
specified in COSO for your analysis.
d. Prepare a system flowchart of a redesigned computer based
system that resolves the control weaknesses
that you identified in “c” above.