Tara works as a programmer for xyz electronics company. about one month ago, tara bought 500 shares of a small start-up firm with great technology because she heard rumors from the cfo's secretary that xyz was planning to purchase the smaller company and give it an infusion of cash. yesterday, xyz announced the decision to buy the small firm, which significantly increased the small company's stock price. tara most likely performed her trade based upon
a. public informationb. xyz's treasury stockc. faulty informationd. insider trading information

Gideon company uses the allowance method of accounting for uncollectible accounts. on may 3, the gideon company wrote off the $2,200 uncollectible account of its customer, a. hopkins. on july 10, gideon received a check for the full amount of $2,200 from hopkins. the entry or entries gideon makes to record the write off of the account on may 3 is:

Which is not an example of a cyclical company? a) airlines b) hotel industry c) medical d) theme parks

Management discovers that a supervisor at one of its restaurant locations removes excess cash and resets sales totals throughout the day on the point-of-sale (pos) system. at closing, the supervisor deposits cash equal to the recorded sales on the pos system and keeps the rest.the supervisor forwards the close-of-day pos reports from the pos system along with a copy of the bank deposit slip to the company’s revenue accounting department. the revenue accounting department records the sales and the cash for the location in the general ledger and verifies the deposit slip to the bank statement. any differences between sales and deposits are recorded in an over/short account and, if necessary, followed up with the location supervisor. the customer food order checks are serially numbered, and it is the supervisor’s responsibility to see that they are accounted for at the end of each day. customerchecks and the transaction journal tapes from the pos system are kept by the supervisor for 1 week at the location and then destroyed.what control allowed the fraud to occur?