Please select any TWO of the following scenarios and provide an appropriate response. Make sure you indicate which numbers you are answering.

1. Assume that the accounting clerk posts a customers payment for the wrong amount, giving the customer credit for less than he or she actually paid. How will this error be detected? How might this error have been prevented?
2. Assume that an employee in the cashiers department loses a check. (Maybe it was placed in the customers file rather than deposited in the bank.) How will this error be detected? How might this error have been prevented?