Internal Control Cases 1. SMITH'S MARKET (SMALL BUSINESS POS ACCOUNTING SYSTEM) In 19\$9, Robert Smith opened a small fruit and veg: etable market in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Originally Smith sold only produce grown on his family farm and orchard. As the market's popularity grew, however, he added bread, canned goods, fresh meats, and a limited supply of frozen goods. Today Smith's market is a full range farmers' market with a strong local customer base. Indeed, the market's reputation for low prices and high quality draws customers from other Pennsylvania cities and even from the neighboring state of New Jersey. Currently Smith's market has 40 employees. These include sales staff, shelf stockers, farm laborers, shift supervisors, and clerical staff. Recently Smith has noticed a decline in profits and sales, while his purchases of products for resale have continued to rise, Although the company does not prepare audited financial statements, Robert Smith has commissioned your public accounting firm to assess his company's sales procedures and controls. Smith's market revenue cycle procedures are deseribed in the following paragraphs: Revenue Cycle Customers push their shopping carts to the checkout register where a clerk processes the sale. The market has four revisters, but they are not dedicated to specific sales eleris because the clerks play many roles in the day-to-tay operations. In addition to checking out customers, sales clerks will stock shelves, unload delivery trueks, of perform other tasks as demand in various areas rises and falls throughout the day. This fluid-work demand makes the assignment of elerks to specifie repisters impractical. At the beginaing of the shift, the shift supervisor coliects four cash register drawers from the treasury clerk in an office in the back of the market. The drawess contain $100 each is smatl bills (known as Boas) to enable the clerki to make change, The superytsor siyns a log indicating that be has taken eastody of the float and places the drawers iato the respective cach registers. only. Crodis carters ate fot cash, cluck, or credit card The derk wipes are perfonsed in the unual way. approval from the cand ard and obtains online The customer then signs the at the time of sale. which the clerk places in a seredit card woucher. which the clerk places in a spectal compl woucher, the cash register drawer. The customer receive receipt for the purchase and a copy of the credit voucher. For payments by check, the clerk requires the tomer to present a valid driver's license. The lice number is added to the cheek and the chex matched against a "black" list of customers have previously passed bad checks. If the custon is not on the list, the check is accepted for payme and placed in the cash register drawer. The de then gives the customer a receipt. The majority of sales are for cash. The det receives the cash from the customer, makes chanf and issues a receipt for the purchase. At the end of the shift the supervisor returns it cash register drawers containing the cash, chat and credit cards receipts to the treasury clerk signs a log that he has handed in the cash dranes The clerk later counts the cash and credit card sis Using a standalone PC, he records the total als amounts in the sales journal and the general Lefp Sales and Cash accounts. The Treasury clerk to prepares a deposit slip and delivers the cast, dath and eredit card vouchers to the local branch of to bank two blocks away from the market. Required a. Create a data flow diagram of the current sst b. Create a system flowchart of the existing syst c. Analyze the physical internal control weakedp in the system. Model your response acoondid the six categories of physical control activince specified in the COSO internal control model d. Describe the IT controls that should be in pls this system. 2. TIGHT LINES FISHING AND CAMPING SUPPLIES (NETWORKED COMPUTER SYSTEM AND MANUA PROCEDURES) Tight Lines Fishing and Camping Supplies York-based wholesuler of tishing equipment that serves fishing and camping Throughout the norih cast. You hase ber Tight Lines to evaluate their procentes internal controlk The followine paraprapt Tight Lines roventw cyele procedures