Chapter 16: General Ledger and Reporting System Flashcards
General Ledger and Reporting System 4 steps
- Update GL
- Posting Adjusting Entries
- Prepare financial statements
- Produce managerial Reports
General Ledger and Reporting System 4 steps
- Update GL
- Posting Adjusting Entries
- Prepare financial statements
- Produce managerial Reports
General Ledger and Reporting System 4 steps
- Update GL
- Posting Adjusting Entries
- Prepare financial statements
- Produce managerial Reports
- Inaccurate or invalid general ledger data
- data processing integrity controls
- restriction of access to general ledger, only authorized employees. Use multi factor authentication
- review of all changes to general ledger data
Unauthorized disclosure of financial statement
- access controls
2. encryption
Loss or Destruction of data
backup and disaster recover procedures
UPdating consists of posting journal entries that originate from two sources:
- Accounting subsystems
2. treasurer
Journal Voucher File
individual journal entries to update the general. Debits equal credits, senior level review and approval.
Inaccurate updating of general ledger
- data entry processing integrity controls
- reconciliations and control reports
- audit trail creation and review
Unauthorized Journal Entires
- access controls
- reconciliation and control reports
- audit trail and creation and review
editing and processing controls needed for treasurer journal entries
- validity check to ensure that general ledger accounts exist for each account number referenced in the journal entry
- field checks to ensure that the amount field in the journal entry contains only numeric data
- zero balance check to verify that total debits equal total credits in a journal entry
- completeness test to ensure that all pertinent data are entered, especially the source of the journal entry
- closed loo verification: matching account numbers with account descriptions to ensure that the correct general ledger account is being accessed
- sign check of the general ledger account balance, once updating is completed, to verify that the balance is of the appropriate nature (Debit or credit)
- calculating run to run totals to verify the accuracy of journal voucher batch processing.
Trail Balance
a report that lists the balances for all general ledger accounts.
Audit Trail
a traceable path that shows how a transaction flows through the information system to affect general ledger account balances - detective control
Audit trail provides the ability to
- trace any transactions from its original source document to the journal entry that update the general ledger and to any report or document using the data
- trace any item appearing in the report back through the general ledger to its original source document.
Inaccurate adjusting entries
- data entry processing integrity controls
- spreadsheet error protection controls
- standard adjusting entries
- reconciliations and control reports
- audit trails
adjusting entries fall into 5 categories:
- accruals
- deferrals
- estimates
- revaluations
- corrections
Inaccurate adjusting entries
- data entry processing integrity controls
- spreadsheet error protection controls
- standard adjusting entries
- reconciliations and control reports
- audit trails
- Inaccurate or invalid general ledger data
- data processing integrity controls
- restriction of access to general ledger, only authorized employees. Use multi factor authentication
- review of all changes to general ledger data
Unauthorized disclosure of financial statement
- access controls
2. encryption
Loss or Destruction of data
backup and disaster recover procedures