On June Meadow Salad Dressings creates a petty cash fund with an imprest balance of $ During June, Al Franklin, the fund custodian, signs the following petty cash tickets:
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On June prior to replenishment, the fund contains these tickets plus cash of $ The accounts affected by petty cash payments are Office Supplies, Travel Expense, Delivery Expense,
Entertainment Expense, and Merchandise Inventory.
Read the requirements.
Requirement Explain the characteristics and the internal control features of an imprest fund.
An imprest fund has
balance at all times, which equals the sum of
plus the
that support payments from the fund. The internal control
feature of an imprest fund is that it
the amount of money for which the fund custodian is responsible.
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Requirements
Explain the characteristics and the internal control features of an imprest fund.
On June how much cash should the petty cash fund hold before it
is replenished?
Journalize all required entries to create the fund and replenish it Include
explanations.
Make the July entry to increase the fund balance to $ Include
an explanation, and briefly describe what the custodian does.
