When an employee processes a fictitious refund of goods for cash, which of the following...

The correct answer is C. In a fictitious refund scheme, an employee records a refund transaction even though no customer actually returned merchandise. The employee then removes cash from the register as if it had been paid to a customer. Because the register records a refund, the register log shows that cash should have decreased. When the employee steals the same amount of cash, the cash on hand can still match the register log, making the theft harder to detect through a simple register reconciliation. Option A is incorrect because fictitious refunds can cause inventory records to show returned goods that do not exist, which tends to overstate rather than understate inventory. Options B and D are incorrect because cash is removed and no real merchandise is returned.

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