Purchases System
Green Mountain Coffee purchases beans and blends
from manufactures and then sells them to customer
stores. Sara is in charge of inventory management in
the warehouse. From her PC, she reviews the inventory
ledger to identify inventory needs. When items fall to
their preestablished reorder point, she prepares a purchase
requisition. She keeps a copy in her department
for use later, files one in the open purchase requisition
file, and sends a copy to AP. At the end of the day, she
uses the purchase requisitions to prepare a four-part
purchase order. One copy is filed, two copies are sent
to the supplier, and one copy is sent to Fayth in the
AP department. When the goods arrive, Sara inspects
and counts them and sends the packing slip to AP.
Using a PC, Sara updates the inventory subsidiary ledger
and, at the end of day, sends an account summary to Vic
in the general ledger department.
After checking that the purchase requisition and
purchase order exist to support the packing slip, Fayth
files the documents in the AP pending file. The supplier’s
invoice is mailed directly to Fayth, who checks
it against the documents in the pending file. Using a
computer system, she updates the AP subsidiary ledger
and records the transaction in the purchases journal.
She then files the purchase requisition, purchase order,
packing slip, and invoice in the open AP file. At the
end of the day, she prepares a journal voucher, which
is sent to Vic in the general ledger department. Using a
separate computer system, Vic updates the control accounts
affected by the transactions and files the summary
and journal vouchers.