accounting control best practices steven m bragg

... of time on the success of a best practices implementation. TIMING OF BEST PRACTICES Both the timing of a best practice implementation and the time it takes to com- plete it have a major impact ... mainframe computer that receives messages from a number of subscribing companies. The message recipient dials into its elec- tronic mailbox at the third-party’s mainframe (usually several times ... cost of implementation for every best practice within it. The best practices are also noted in summary form in Appendix A. This third edition of Best Practices contains 60 new best practices. ...

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... con- siderable amount of programming time should reserve that time in advance with the programming staff to ensure that the programming is completed on time. Also, the management team must have a ... 110 Chapter 7 Collections Best Practices 128 Chapter 8 Commissions Best Practices 154 Chapter 9 Costing Best Practices 167 Chapter 10 Filing Best Practices 184 Chapter 11 Finance Best Practices 206 Chapter ... 2 How to Use Best Practices 4 Chapter 3 Accounts Payable Best Practices 17 Chapter 4 Billing Best Practices 66 Chapter 5 Budgeting Best Practices 87 Chapter 6 Cash Management Best Practices 110 Chapter...

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... programming time should reserve that time in advance with the programming staff to ensure that the programming is completed on time. Further, the management team must have a suffi cient amount of time ... best practices implementation. Timing of Best Practices The timing of a best practice implementation, the time it takes to complete it, and the pacing of installations have a major impact on the ... improving accounting opera- tions. All best practices are also noted in summary form in Appendix A. xi Exhibit 3.1 Summary of Accounts Payable Best Practices Best Practice Cost Install Time Approvals ...

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... system, specifically targeted at payables. It features complex software with many interfaces, since it must handle incoming payment information in many data formats, work-flow management of payment ... Customer account number (mandatory) ã Customer name (mandatory) ã Invoice gross amount ã Amount paid ã Invoice number ã Discount ã Purchase order number ã Invoice date ã Adjustment taken ã Adjustment ... little impact on departmental financial statements. Cost: Installation time: 76 Accounts Payable Best Practices ch03_4773.qxd 12/29/06 9:10 AM Page 76 82 Billing Best Practices Exhibit 4.1 Summary...

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... suitable time lag been built into the plan to account for the ramp-up time needed to implement the automation? Some of these problems are present in all but the best budget models. The best practice ... contracts to pay fixed monthly amounts. In these cases, a com- pany issues invoices for the same amount every month to all of its customers. The customers then pay the same amount every month and the ... problem is that the most efficient EDI systems require some automation. A standard EDI system requires one to manually enter all transactions, as well as manually extract them from the EDI mailbox...

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... customer are extremely small—the cost of contacting them may exceed the profit from annual sales to them. Thus, a company with a small num- ber of customers or many low-volume customers may not ... cable, or T1 phone 130 Cash Management Best Practices Exhibit 6.1 Summary of Cash Management Best Practices Best Practice Cost Install Time 6–1 Access bank account information on the Internet 6–2 ... Using Best Practices ch06_4773.qxd 12/29/06 9:14 AM Page 131 Total Impact of Best Practices on the Cash Management Function 143 Exhibit 6.3 Impact of Best Practices on the Cash Management Function this...

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... Commissions Best Practices Exhibit 8.1 Summary of Commissions Best Practices Best Practice Cost Install Time Commission Calculations 8–1 Automatically calculate commissions in the computer system 8–2 ... final commissions from actual data 8–3 Construct a standard commission terms table 8–4 Periodically issue a summary of commission rates 8–5 Simplify the commission structure Commission Payments 8–6 ... Include commission payments in payroll payments 8–7 Lengthen the interval between commission payments 8–8 Only pay commissions from cash received 8–9 Periodically audit commissions paid Commission...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 16:20

... to operate. By making these changes, a number of system reliability problems can be eliminated. ã Scheduled downtime. One of the most common employee complaints regard- ing system downtime is that maintenance ... Practices Exhibit 10.1 Summary of Filing Best Practices Best Practice Cost Install Time Mailroom Improvements 10–1 Open envelopes with a belt sander 10–2 Improve the mailroom interface Computer-Related ... department, or if they require special computer programming to implement, which is the case for many of the best practices related to storing data on a computer, then the imple- mentation is assumed...

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... commitments for which a company may be liable. The problem for company management is that the employ- ees who may be creating these commitments (especially in the purchasing and legal departments) ... 270 Implementation Issues for Financial Statements Best Practices 267 Exhibit 12.1 Summary of Financial Statements Best Practices Best Practice Cost Install Time Financial Reports 12–1 Move operating ... distributed and communication systems are accordingly more difficult to maintain. A solution is to assemble a disclosure committee, made up of representatives from every department whose employees are...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 16:20

... in its accounting and nance curriculum: ã Accounting for business combinations ã Activity-based management ã Business controls ã Cash-ow management ã Coaching and career management ã Controllership ã ... from which the information is drawn. If any of the information from mul- tiple locations is to be combined to create summary-level reports, then either a custom interface must be built to combine ... Diversity ã E-commerce ã Financial planning and analysis ã Global nance ã Management accounting ã Mergers and acquisitions ã Six sigma ã Supply-chain management ã Taxation ã Revenue-chain management All...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 16:20

... assemble materials for the production department to use. This is an extremely difficult best practice to implement. The concept that only a relatively small number of companies have fully implemented ... recommend the implementation of the system in which the person is an expert, since he or she can offer valuable implementation tips to the local management team in regard to installing the system. ... to the commencement 15–21 Use Excel for Continous Auditing 367 ch15_4773.qxd 12/29/06 9:30 AM Page 367 372 Inventory Best Practices Exhibit 16.1 Summary of Inventory Best Practices Best Practice...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 16:20

... requiring greater implementation effort and that Implementation Issues for Payroll Best Practices 415 Exhibit 17.1 Summary of Payroll Best Practices Best Practice Cost Install Time Employee Deductions 17–1 ... formal training in any incremental improvements made to the system over time. Cost: Installation time: 16–27 Record Inventory Transactions with Radio Frequency Communications Even if a company ... For example, a person picks a part from stock, scans the item’s bar code and the loca- 396 Inventory Best Practices ch16_4773.qxd 12/29/06 9:33 AM Page 396 Summary 413 Exhibit 16.2 Impact of Best Practices...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 16:20

... steps. Impacted best practices: ãã Disallow prepayments ã The company does not make purchases on behalf of employees. This policy keeps the accounting staff from making a series of deductions from employee paychecks ... the old 401(k) administrator may require a separation fee if the company is terminating its services inside of a minimum time interval, which may involve a small penalty payment. These issues ... interest in receiving payment for invoices. This approach avoids the use of commission payments based solely on invoiced amounts. Impacted best practices: ãã Only pay commissions from cash received 18–6...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 16:20

... con- siderable amount of programming time should reserve that time in advance with the programming staff to ensure that the programming is completed on time. Further, the management team must have ... impact on employees, whose morale may suffer from having been burdened with an unending stream of best practices projects. Sometimes, spreading out implementation projects over Implementing Best ... 9:08 AM Page 7 Accounting Best Practices Fifth Edition Steven M. Bragg John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ch00_FM_4773.qxd 12/29/06 9:07 AM Page iii multiple best practices at the same time or one after...

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