Date: Thu‚ 17 JAN 2008 7:42:53 +0000 From: "Darlene Wardlaw" Subject: Understanding the Revenue Cycle Attachment: I’ve attached a Sales internal control questionnaire from another engagement that I think you can use for Apollo. You may want to talk to Karina Ramirez to get answers to the questions. 1. Complete the ICQ for Apollo. For “yes” answers‚ add a comment stating which department and clerk performs the function. For “no” answers‚ describe the possible “errors” or “frauds”
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Apollo Shoes Case Assignment Apollo Shoes Inc.‚ Anderson‚ Olds‚ and Watershed has enjoyed working with your company this year‚ and look forward for more to come. Enclosed are the item that your company has requested of us‚ while there are some improvements to be made‚ your staff has done a fantastic job in assisting us with our audit. We hope that we have assisted your company and answered any questions about improvements to be made. Team C Sales Internal Control Questionnaire for Apollo
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Date: Mon‚ 21 JAN 2008 11:04:37 +0000 From: "Darlene Wardlaw" <DW@aow.cpa> Subject: FW: Revenue Cycle Problems Bradley sent me a copy of his test of controls work that he did on sales transactions. (Please tell him to send his work to you‚ rather than me.) Based on what Bradley found‚ there looks to be some serious problems in Sales and A/R. You need to write a memo identifying and explaining the significance of the qualitative features indicated by these deviations. Some things you
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Date: 19 Jan 1:30:27 From: Dennis Reese Subject: Revenue Cycle Problems I have looked over Bradley’s report and yes we do have some issues with the Sales‚ and Account Receivables. The fourth quarter deviations overstated are the worst because they can have the most effect on the Financial Statements. The controls need to be more uniform as Bradley stated because then they would even out through the months instead of hitting us mostly on the fourth quarter. The company reports financial
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Apollo Revenue Cycle Flowchart Flow Chart 1. Sales order documents are not prenumbered‚ and kept in a busy sales clerk area. 2. Customer order is attached if one was received. 3. Sales invoice are pernumbered‚ and kept in a locked closet; removed only for billing clerk use 4. Bills of lading are pernumbered and kept in the shipping department. 5. Sales order forms are not prenumbered and kept in the salesclerks working area‚ many people pass through. 6. Credit manager is
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TEST OF CONTROLS – REVENUE TRANSACTIONS |Audit Objective |Audit procedure |Findings | |General | | | |Validity |Observe
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The Accounting Cycle Five Cycles of Accounting The accounting cycle consists of five components: revenue‚ expenditures‚ financing‚ conversion‚ and fixed assets (Bagranoff‚ Simkin‚ & Strand‚ 2008). There are many business activities within a company that will take place in each of these cycles. The revenue cycle incorporates sales and cash receipts. Expenditures are the decrease in cash assets to acquire goods or services necessary to operate. The conversion cycle is a continual process that
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Revenue Cycle Education Improvement Strategies Presented by: Colleen Malmgren‚ MS‚ RHIA Fairview Health Services cmalmgrl @fairview.org Definition of Revenue Cycle All administrative and clinical functions that contribute to the capture‚ management and collection of patient service revenue *HFMA Scheduling/Registration Health Info Mgmt Case Management Pt Financial Srvcs Charge Capture Revenue Audit Chargemaster Establish Performance Indicators Establish measures that go beyond Accounts receivable
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Chapter 4 The Revenue Cycle Objectives for Chapter 4 • Tasks performed in the revenue cycle‚ regardless of the technology used • The functional departments involved in revenue cycle activities and the flow of revenue transactions through the organization • The documents‚ journals‚ and accounts that provide audit trails‚ promote the maintenance of records‚ support decision making‚ and sustain financial reporting • Risks associated with the revenue cycle and the controls that reduce these risks
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3. The Revenue Cycle The revenue cycle is a set of four business activities: Sales order entry‚ shipping‚ billing and cash collections. To each of these activities there are related administrative organisational activities. It is all associated with providing the goods and services of a company to their customers and collecting the payments for these sales. Information about the revenue cycle activities also flows to the other accounting cycles which are: the expenditure cycle‚ the production
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