Exercise 8-3
Analyzing internal control
Bemis Company is a rapidly growing start-up business. Its recordkeeper, who was hired one year ago,
left town after the company’s manager discovered that a large sum of money had disappeared over
the past six months. An audit disclosed that the recordkeeper had written and signed several checks
made payable to her fiancé and then recorded the checks as salaries expense. The fiancé, who cashed
the checks but never worked for the company, left town with the recordkeeper. As a result, the company
incurred an uninsured loss of $84,000. Evaluate Bemis’s internal control system and indicate
which principles of internal control appear to have been ignored.
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