Question: Customer Invoices Date Invoice # Customer Name Customer Address Amount 7-Jun 1001 Publix Supermarket PO Box 34 $3,504.23 11-Jun 1002 Ingles 45 Main $2,146.94 14-Jun
| Customer Invoices | ||||
| Date | Invoice # | Customer Name | Customer Address | Amount |
| 7-Jun | 1001 | Publix Supermarket | PO Box 34 | $3,504.23 |
| 11-Jun | 1002 | Ingles | 45 Main | $2,146.94 |
| 14-Jun | 1003 | Wal-Mart | Route 34 | $5,510.00 |
| 21-Jun | 1004 | Ingles | 45 Main | $1,894.25 |
| 21-Jun | 1005 | Kroger | 587 Longview | $3,350.00 |
| 24-Jun | 1006 | Kroger | 587 Longview | $2,845.69 |

| Accounts Receivable | Account # 120 | ||||
| Date | Description | Post Ref | Debit | Credit | Balance |
| 1-Jun | Balance Forward | $38,145.55 | |||
| 30-Jun | June Sales | SJ | $ 19,251.11 | $ 57,396.66 | |
| Sales Revenue | Account #610 | ||||
| Date | Description | Post Ref | Debit | Credit | Balance |
| 1-Jun | Balance Forward | $112,680.45 | |||
| 30-Jun | March Purchases | SJ | 19,251.11 | $ 131,931.56 | |
Part 1 -An audit trail enables a person to trace a source document to its ultimate effect in the financial statements or to work back from financial statement amounts to source documents. (20 points) Use the sales and account information in the Bar Harbor Blueberries MS Excel file (available on Moodle) to describe the linkages both from customer invoices to ending account balances and from ending account balances to customer invoices. Using this context, explain why it is important to enable such a trail in accounting information systems. As part of your response, describe which transactions processing objectives (occurrence, completeness, accuracy, authorization, classification, cutoff) the ability to trace from source documents to account balances supports. Which objectives are related to the ability to trace from account balances back to source documents
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