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The Expenditure Cycle: Purchasing To Cash Disbursements
The Expenditure Cycle: Purchasing To Cash Disbursements
Learning Objectives
Explain the basic business activities and related
information processing operations performed in the
expenditure cycle.
Discuss the key decisions to be made in the
expenditure cycle, and identify the information needed
to make those decisions.
Identify major threats in the expenditure cycle, and
evaluate the adequacy of various control procedures
for dealing with those threats.
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Primary objective:
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Ordering Threats
Inaccurate inventory records
Purchasing items not needed
Purchasing at inflated prices
Purchasing goods of inferior quality
Unreliable suppliers
Purchasing from unauthorized suppliers
Kickbacks
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Ordering Controls
Price lists
Competitive bidding
Budgets
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Maintaining a list of approved suppliers and configuring the system to permit purchase
orders only to approved suppliers
Supplier audits
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Receiving Threats
Accepting unordered items
Mistakes in counting
Verifying receipt of services
Theft of inventory
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Receiving Controls
Budgetary controls
Audits
Restriction of physical
access to inventory
Incentives
Documentation of all
transfers of inventory
between receiving and
inventory employees
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Invoice Processing
Non-Voucher
Voucher
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