Question: I need help identifying the 5 internal control problems that are specific to this scenario, if it is not mentioned then we cannot assume the

Please read the narrative below for the Revenue cycle. You will internal controls for the revenue cycle and make the recommendation that best mitigates this problem Bob is a consultant hired by the CEO of Jensen's Sports Equipment Company. This company orders and sells sports equipment to individual, government, and corporate customers. After talking to the accounting department, Bob has documented the following processes that currently occur at Jensen's The sales person must get the customer to sign (authorize) the sales order. A copy of the sales order goes to the warehouse, a copy goes to the credit manager, and a copy goes to accounting. The warehouse person immediately fills the order and pick the items from the warehouse shelves and pack the items. Items ship out the next day and the shipping manager creates a daily shipping report and provides a copy to accounting the next morning. The credit manager does a weekly review of customer sales order. The accounting department creates an invoice and mails to the customer the next day. The transaction posts to the general ledger on the shipping date. The invoices are promptly mailed out each day. The mail is opened up every day by anyone in the accounting department that is available that day. Checks from customer payments are separated and then that person deposits the checks to the bank and posts the customer payment in the accounting system. The accounting department is small, so anyone who is available will do the bank reconciliation at the end of the month. After further discussions with the accounting staff, they are reporting a spike in customer uncollectible accounts. In addition, the accounting staff is also noticing that customer complaints are increasing. Many of these complaints are with customers who received their order at a different shipping address than they wanted. Further review is showing that the sales person is only putting in the billing address and not the shipping address on the sales order. Your answer should be in a format listing out the 5 issues/recommendations as follows: 1. IC Problem IC Recommendation 2. IC Problem IC Recommendation Etc
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