Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Primary objective:
Minimize the total cost of acquiring and maintaining
inventories, supplies, and the various services the
organization needs to function
4. Cash disbursements
Poor performance
• Choose a supplier
▫ Source document: purchase order
13-8
Ordering Threats
Unreliable suppliers
Kickbacks
Price lists
Competitive bidding
Budgets
Maintaining a list of approved suppliers and configuring the system to permit purchase orders
only to approved suppliers
Supplier audits
Goods arrive
Verify goods ordered against the purchase order (what, how
much, quality)
Source document: receiving report
13-12
Receiving Threats
Mistakes in counting
Theft of inventory
• Pay vendor
13-15
Approving Invoices Threats
Duplicate payments
Theft of cash
Check alteration
Procurement card
13-22
Imprest fund