An employee has been stealing funds from the company for years. Which of the following control methods would have most likely uncovered this sooner? Question 10 options: Close a petty cash fund Audit the supply account Complete a bank reconciliation Set-up a petty cash fund

Complete a bank reconciliation

Step-by-step explanation:

A bank reconciliation is the process where the financial records of the bank is compared with the firm's financial record. If an employee has been stealing funds from the company, there would be a discrepancy between the figures provided by the record.

In a bid to know the reason for the discrepancy, the theft would be detected

step-by-step explanation:

, and

for

step-by-step explanation:

we can analyze the pattern at which the terms increase. let us denote , , , so that we can call

note the following:

the pattern: to get the next term value, we just add the next term number (e.g. 1st, 2nd, to the previous term value (term values are the given numbers in the question, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15,

from , to get to , we add

from , to get to , we add

etc.

we need to form a recursive formula, a formula that has the next term as a function of the previous term. so a possible recursive formula can be

, and for