23-20 (Objectives 23-3, 23-4) 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 accounts 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 2016 and the first few days of 2017. 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
17000	12/27/16	12/29/16	12/26/16	12/27/16
28000	12/28/16	01/02/17	12/28/16	12/29/16
16000	01/02/17	12/30/16	12/28/16	12/29/16
10000	12/26/16	12/26/16	12/28/16	01/03/17
21000	01/02/17	01/02/17	12/28/16	12/31/16
22000	01/07/17	01/05/17	12/28/16	01/03/17
39000	01/04/17	01/06/17	01/03/17	01/05/17

a. In verifying each bank transfer, state the appropriate audit procedures you should require 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, 2016, 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, 2016, bank reconciliation of the branch bank account after your adjustments in part c.