Faith Cassen has recently been hired as the manager of Gibraltar Coffee Shop. Gibraltar Coffee Shop is a national chain of franchised coffee shops. During her first month as store manager, Faith encountered the following internal control situations:

Faith caught an employee putting a case of 1,000 single-serving tea bags in his car. Not wanting to create a scene, Faith smiled and said, "I don’t think you’re putting those tea bags on the right shelf. Don't they belong inside the coffee shop?" The employee returned the tea bags to the stockroom.

I _with Faith's method of handling this situation because she has _the internal control principle of safeguarding of assets.

A. AGREEB. DISAGREEC. FOLLOWEDD. DID NOT FOLLOWED

Faith Cassen has recently been hired as the manager of Gibraltar Coffee Shop. Gibraltar Coffee Shop is a national chain of franchised coffee shops. During her first month as store manager, Faith encountered the following internal control situations:

Faith caught an employee putting a case of 1,000 single-serving tea bags in his car. Not wanting to create a scene, Faith smiled and said, "I don’t think you’re putting those tea bags on the right shelf. Don't they belong inside the coffee shop?" The employee returned the tea bags to the stockroom.

I disagree with Faith's method of handling this situation because she has not followed the internal control principle of safeguarding of assets.

Internal control refers to a procedure or policy put in place by management to related measures and methods adopted in an organization to safeguard its assets, enhance reliability of accounting records, ensure compliance with laws and regulations and stop fraudulent behavior; this procedure might involve measures like physical security barriers, access restriction, locks and surveillance equipment.