As a finance manager of a catering company you are required to draw a report to sent to the auditor, giving your reactions and comment to the below , stating what you intend to do about them.

1) The storekeeper is responsible both for the stores and for purchasing. There are frequent cases of shortages of items needed urgently, but also of items with expired dates.

2)The storekeeper orders require raw materials form suppliers by phones, keeping a record of what he has ordered in a notebook kept in his office. He always orders rom the same suppliers as he says that he has faith in them, and told the auditors that they give him good quality and prices.

3) Suppliers unload their goods onto the platform in front of the stores. The storekeeper and deliveryman check the goods received against the delivery note when the storekeeper is available, bout often there is more than one delivery taking place at the same time, in which case the store keeper signs the delivery note for the delivery man, keeps a copy for himself, and then checks the items later on when he has time. He says he has never found any missing goods in several years.

4) Items such as meat, fish, vegetables and fruit are stored in cold room adjacent to the stores, and the head Chef and the Storekeeper both have free access to this room. When the Chef takes such items from this room, he gives a paper to the Storekeeper sowing what he has taken and signs it.

5)On Saturday morning, when no deliveries take place, the storekeeper records all the items delivered that week as shown on the delivery notes and updates the stores records on to his manual card system.

6)As soon as he finds the time, the storekeeper makes photocopies of the delivery notes and passes them to the accountant for payment.