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ACC 622 Accounting Information Systems Assignment - Ashford University, USA

Question - The internal audit staff at Sampson conducts a periodic review of the organization's accounting records in order to determine if the system for internal controls is effective.

In the latest audit, the staff found the following situations:

Bank deposits and cash receipts do not always reconcile.

Decisions and the actual write-offs of bad debt are performed by the same person.

Occasional discrepancies exist between physical inventory and the perpetual inventory records.

Adjustments to physical inventory counts and the perpetual inventory records have been observed.

Customer refunds and credits are not unusual.

Original source documents are missing. However, substitute copies of the original source documents are available.

Many source documents lack appropriate management approval.

Required - Analyze the seven situations of this case study and discuss the possible cause of the situation.