Question: Im cobfused and stuck with below question Question 3: The Pine Hills Ski Resort (PHSR) is located in Central Ontario, away from most other attractions

Im cobfused and stuck with below question

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Question 3: The Pine Hills Ski Resort (\"PHSR") is located in Central Ontario, away from most other attractions and villages. It is a 60 minute drive from Peterborough, the nearest major city. It was run by Cathy and Peter Forint since their family developed the resort in the 1980's. However, since 2005, they had left the day-to-day running ofthe business to their Operations Manager, Suzanne Mariot. In early 2015, Cathy and Peter decided they wanted to retire to Florida and live an easy life. They sold PHSR to Fred and Gloria Martinez, who are both currently working as licenced dentists in Toronto. Not being trained in \"business\" specifically, and because they immediately liked Suzanne, Fred and Gloria leave almost everything to Suzanne when it comes to running the business and anything "nancial". Fred and Gloria, being quite busy with their dental patients, rarely get to PHSR and are kept informed about the resort via telephone conversations and emails. Suzanne runs PHSR as the \"head person\Every September, Suzanne prepares to open up PHSR for the upcoming ski season. One of the things she does is reconcile the bank statements received from the past months (April to August) when the resort has been closed. Even though there are few transaction during this time, usually there is a cheque or two that has been returned for "insufficient funds" in PHSR's account. Early October, Fred and Gloria make their only visit to PHSR. Because of their irregular visits, Suzanne asks Fred and Gloria to sign several "blank cheques" (signed cheques but with the payee and dollar amount not completed) in case there is an urgent need to pay someone. Fred and Gloria says they prefer that to driving Ontario's roads in snow-and-ice conditions! Suzanne retains these blank cheques in her desk drawer. Because she has a tendency to lose keys, she decided it is safer to simply keep the desk drawer closed (but un-locked) all the time rather than be unable to access the cheques when needed. Fred and Gloria are very happy with the financial performance of PHSR and Suzanne's performance as Operations Manager. However, Fred and Gloria's neighbour in Toronto, Ali Reeza CPA, had communicated some concerns when he heard about PHSR's operations and practices. Ali recommended you to conduct a review of PHSR's Internal Controls. Required: Identify five Internal Control weaknesses at PHSR and provide an answer addressing each weakness as follows: a) State the Internal Control Weakness b) What is the resulting Risk from each of the Internal Control Weaknesses c) What is your recommendation for change

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