Mike Ryan is the owner of Ryan Contractors, a successful small construction company. He spends most of his time out of the office supervising work at$.$various construction sites, leaving the operation of the office to the company's cashier$/$bookkeeper$,$ Gloria Anderson. Gloria makes bank deposits, pays the company's bills, maintains the accounting records, and prepares monthly bank reconciliations.

Recently a friend told Mike that while he was at a party he overheard Gloria bragging that she paid for her new clothes with money from the company's cash receipts. She said her boss would never know because he never checks the cash records.

Mike admits that he does not check on Gloria's work. He now wants to know if Gloria is stealing from him. He asks you to examine the company's cash records to determine whether Gloria has stolen cash from the business and, if so$,$ how much.

Your examination of the company's cash records reveals the following information:

Gloria prepared the following August $31,20\backslash$times $1,$ bank reconciliation.

$\backslash$table$[[\backslash$table$[[$Balance in books, August $31,201$

An examination of the general ledger shows the Cash account with a balance of $$19,311$ on August $31,201.$

The August $31$ bank statement shows a balance of $$17,598.$

The August $28$ deposit of $$5,138$ does not appear on the August $31$ bank statement.

A comparison of canceled checks returned with the August $31$ bank statement with the cash payments journal reveals the followir checks as outstanding:

$\backslash$table$[[$Check $1590,$$$595$