Answer:
- This type of fraud is check tampering
- It amounts to 20.1% of fraud cases in small businesses, and 8.4% of fraud in large businesses
- This type of fraud can be prevented by rotating employees that handle check issuance to vendors, review of budget versus actual expenditure, monitoring of audit trail to see if beneficiary was changed, daily statement download for reconciliation, and restriction of functions for example a employee that issues checks should not also reconcile bank statement.
Explanation:
Check tampering is a very common fraud that involves changing the beneficiary of a valid check so that funds can be diverted.
In the given scenario the accounts payable clerk was able to change checks to his name in order to divert $10,000. This was only discovered by chance when an employee noticed the change in name.
Various internal control measures can be taken to prevent this and they are listed above
Answer:
The answer is autonomy (Option D)
Explanation:
Autonomy in human resource management refers to the level or degree of discretion and freedom which an employee is permitted to exercise when performing his/her job. In other words, it means granting employees the freedom on how to approach work.
A manager or superior like Margie (in the question) who gives employees autonomy simply gives minimal instruction on what needs to be achieved but allows the employees to go about the job in ways that best suit them.
Answer:
Effective
Explanation:
Segregation of duties (SOD) is an essential part of the effectiveness of internal controls for any business. This integral separation ensures that key processes are performed by more than one person to prevent fraud or financial misstatement. While technology continues to become more sophisticated, the time is now to implement controls that segregate key functions within processes such as cash disbursements, investments, payroll, and many other areas.
Maarja's Razors is implementing effectively the segregation of duties. Key processes are performed by more than one person, and this helps in flexibility of operations.
Answer:
$7,776,899
Explanation:
Calculation to determine what interest expense would it recognize in its 2021 income statement
Interest expense= $388,844,955 * 8% * (3 months/12 months)
Interest expense= $31,107,596.4 * 3/12
Interest expense= $7,776,899
Therefore the interest expense that would be recognize in its 2021 income statement is $7,776,899
Answer:
The correct option is a.
Explanation:
In the question, it is given that there are two firms namely U and L who has same same amounts of assets, investor supplied material, and Return on investor capital.
The Firm U is unleveraged which has 100% equity
whereas, Firm L is leveraged firm which has 50% debt and 50% equity
As we have to compare these two firms based on return on equity.
So, based on ROE, Firm U has 100% equity so it have more equity
And, the Firm L have 50% equity which means the firm has low equity as 50% contribution is gone to the debt.
The rest information which is given in the question is irrelevant. So, it is ignored.
Thus, the Firm L has a lower ROE than Firm U
Hence, the correct option is a.
