Purchase Order The following purchase procedures were obtained from Hakim, a store executive. Periodically, he reviews the inventory cards and lists all products for reordering purpose. He decided on the purchases based upon the minimum inventory needed for each product together with the minimum order quantity specied by the vendors to determine the ordered quantity. Hakim then refers to the 'Vendors' le\" for identifying the vendor to deliver the ordered inventories. He then manually prepares a pre- numbered purchase order (two copies}. He noties the respective vendors on the purchase order details via e-maili'fax. The purchase order forms are then led in 'lncoming Purchase Order' le by date while waiting for the delivery. The vendor fulls the order and delivers the ordered inventories to EMSB's receiving dock. Your team was then invited to observe the handling of vendors\" delivery in the receiving dock area. The receiving dock is an open platform located beside the warehouse entrance in which the lorry drivers will unload the inventories. The operation employees handle the receiving process. When the delivery arrives, the employee takes out the respective purchase order copies from the 'lncoming Purchase Order' le. Next, the employee inspects the inventories received for possible damage, veries that the inventory description and the stated quantity on the vendor's delivery note are consistent with the information in the purchase order. In several instances, a considerably high number of deliveries made by the vendors in a day causing the operation employee struggles to handle the incoming deliveries. As you observed during the visit, in several deliveries, the operation employee seems to simply verify the quantity received as per delivery note without physically inspecting and counting the number of inventories arrived. The operation employees further mentioned that in case of no discrepancies found on the order received, the operation employee signs the designated section for receiving information in the purchase order form and species the receiving date in the purchase order copy. The employee then keeps the purchase order copies together with the vendor's delivery note into a 'Completed Delivery\" le by the date of receiving. From time to time, Hakim reviews 'Completed Delivery\" le for all completed purchase orders. For each delivered order, he updates the quantity received onto the respective inventory card. Then, he forwards the original copy of the purchase order to accounts unit. Meanwhile, the second copy of the purchase order and vendor's delivery note is kept accordingly in 'Completed Delivery' le. Accounts Payable and Cash Disbursement Maryam describes as follows of how she handles the cash payment to the EMSB's vendors, specifically on the purchase of inventories. Upon receiving the purchase order copy, Maryam temporarily files the purchase order (by supplier name) in 'Incoming Vendor's Invoice' while waiting for the invoice to arrive from the vendor. When the vendor's invoice arrives, she takes out the respective purchase order copy that matches the vendor's invoice. The supplier invoice details are reconciled with the respective purchase order. Maryam gets into EMSB's accounting system and records the vendor's invoice by keying-in the reseller's ID. A computer program then reads the vendor's master file and displays the vendor's details on screen. She then records the vendor's invoice details onto the system. A next computer program edits and checks the invoice details entered for possible data entry errors. Upon saving the transaction, the computer program records the transaction into the purchase file and updates the respective vendor's file and subsequently the general ledger master file. She then prints the accounts payable summary and files together with the purchase order copy and vendor's invoice by the invoice's due date into an 'Open Invoice' file. When asked about the payment procedures, Maryam elaborated as below: On every Monday, she checks on the 'invoice for payment file' for any outstanding invoices that are becoming due within that week. For all invoices becoming due, she takes out the invoices with the attached purchase order copy and enters the vendor's details into the EMSB's accounting system (account payable cash payment module). Upon entering the vendor's details, a computer program retrieves the respective vendor's record from the vendor's master file and displays all pending invoices on screen. She then chooses the invoices for payment and records the payment details. The computer program records the transactions into a cash disbursement file and creates a payment voucher register file. Consequently, the computer program updates the vendor's master file and general ledger master file for all transactions entered. Next, she prints a payment voucher for the respective invoices due for payment. She later forwards the payment vouchers to Jason, the account manager for payment processing. The account manager makes a payment using online banking to the respective vendors as per the payment voucher. The payment slip is then given back to her for filing purpose. Finally, she attaches the purchase order, vendor's invoice, payment voucher and the payment slip into the 'Paid Invoice' file based on the payment date. When asked for any specific reports prepared at the end of each month, Maryam indicated that she produces a report from EMSB accounting system comprising of purchase summary, accounts payable summary, and total cash disbursement of the month. The reports are forwarded to the general manager.(a) Identify FOUR (4) possible weaknesses in the EMSB's Purchase Order and Cash Disbursement procedures. Provide an appropriate argument to support each of the weaknesses highlighted. (b) Describe at least ONE (1) risk exposure that might have resulted from each of the internal control weakness identified in (a). (c) Suggest and explain appropriate internal control procedure to rectify each of the weakness identified in (a). Please use the following format to answer questions (a), (b) and (c) above. No. (a) Internal Control Weakness (b) Suggestions 1 . Weakness: Suggestion: Related case (Weakness): Why (Explanation): Risk exposure (Explanation)