Response to the following problem:
In the audit of the Regional Transport Company, a large branch that maintains its own bank account, cash is periodically transferred to the central account in Cedar Rapids. On the branch account's records, bank transfers are recorded as a debit to the home office clearing account and a credit to the branch bank account. Similarly, the home office account is recorded as a debit to the central bank account and a credit to the branch office clearing account. Gordon Light is the head bookkeeper for both the home office and the branch bank accounts. Because he also reconciles the bank account, the senior auditor, Cindy Marintette, is concerned about the internal control deficiency. As a part of the year-end audit of bank transfers, Marintette asks you to schedule the transfers for the last few days in 2013 and the first few days of 2014. You prepare the following list:
|
Amount of Transfer
|
Date Recorded in
the Home Office
Cash Receipts
Journal
|
Date Recorded in
the Branch Office
Cash Disbursements
Journal
|
Date Deposited
in the Home
Office Bank
Account
|
Date Cleared
the Branch
Bank Account
|
|
$17,000
|
12-27-13
|
12-29-13
|
12-26-13
|
12-27-13
|
|
28,000
|
12-28-13
|
01-02-14
|
12-28-13
|
12-29-13
|
|
16,000
|
01-02-14
|
12-30-13
|
12-28-13
|
12-29-13
|
|
10,000
|
12-26-13
|
12-26-13
|
12-28-13
|
01-03-14
|
|
21,000
|
01-02-14
|
01-02-14
|
12-28-13
|
12-31-13
|
|
22,000
|
01-07-14
|
01-05-14
|
12-28-13
|
01-03-14
|
|
39,000
|
01-04-14
|
01-06-14
|
01-03-14
|
01-05-14
|
Required:
a. In verifying each bank transfer, state the appropriate audit procedures you should perform.
b. Prepare any adjusting entries required in the home office records.
c. Prepare any adjusting entries required in the branch bank records.
d. State how each bank transfer should be included in the December 31, 2013, bank reconciliation for the home office account after your adjustments in part b.
e. State how each bank transfer should be included in the December 31, 2013, bank reconciliation of the branch bank account after your adjustments in part c.