SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS
PROBLEM 7-1A
(a) Principles
pplication to Granada Theater
Establishment of responsibility. Only cashiers are authorized to sell
tickets. Only the manager and cashie
can handle cash.
Segregation of duties. The duties of receiving cash and
admitting customers are assigned to
the cashier and to the doorperson.
The manager maintains custody of the
cash, and the company accountant
records the cash.
Human resource controls. Cashiers are bonded.
(b) Actions by the doorperson and cashier to misappropriate cash include:
(1) Instead of tearing the tickets, the doorperson could return the
tickets to the cashier who could resell them, and the two could
divide the cash.