Answer and Explanation:
1. Margie Johnson would be ethically wrong if she grants the boss's favour to not report inventory shrinkage. Also financial statements would not show a true and fair view if she decides to follow what her boss is asking. She should report true inventory value in financial statements.
2. Yes Ryan is being professional since he is out to improve company's sales and income even though he may be putting pressure on employees to work overtime
Answer: Physical safeguard & security, Accuracy, Segregation of duties, Handling errors
Explanation:
Internal control could be defined as the process of handling an organization accounting and auditing process with it's specified objectives in compliance with laws, regulations and policies.
Here are the four purpose of internal control;
a) Physical safeguard & security; this is to ensure that physical assets and information have a controlled asses, and it's not easily assessible by anyone.
b) Accuracy: this is to ensure that all transactions are accurate when records are checked with the source of information where the transaction took place and the time it occurred.
c) Segregation of duties; this ensures that one individual cannot have access to the recording of information and processing of transaction.
d) Handling errors; this ensures that errors are checked at any stage with transaction occurred with corrections also made
