Gloria's Fabrics is a large fabric provider to the general public. The accounting office has three employees: accounts receivable clerk, accounts payable clerk, and full charge bookkeeper. The accounts receivable clerk creates the sales invoices and records the cash receipts, the accounts payable clerk creates and pays the purchase orders, and the full charge bookkeeper reconciles the checking account.

Choose one of the three jobs. Identify the accounts and describe the transactions that would be recorded by that assigned job. What effect would each transaction have on each account? How would each member of the accounting department work together to present accurate information for the decision makers?