UPDATE ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE. The remittance advices are used to post to the customers’ accounts in the AR subsidiary ledger. Periodically, the changes in account balances are summarized and forwarded to the general ledger function.
UPDATE GENERAL LEDGER. Upon receipt of the journal voucher and the account summary, the general ledger function reconciles the figures, posts to the cash and AR control accounts, and files the journal voucher.
RECONCILE CASH RECEIPTS AND DEPOSITS. Periodically (weekly or monthly), a clerk from the controller’s office (or an employee not involved with the cash receipts procedures) reconciles cash receipts by comparing the following documents: (1) a copy of the prelist, (2) deposit slips received from the bank, and (3) related journal vouchers.
REVENUE CYCLE CONTROLS
Chapter 3 defined six classes of internal control activities that guide us in designing and evaluating trans- action processing controls. They are transaction authorization, segregation of duties, supervision, accounting records, access control, and independent verification. Table 4-1 summarizes these control activities as they apply in the revenue cycle.