The internal auditors of Brown Electrical Company report to the controller. Due to changes made in the past year to several of the transaction processing programs, the internal auditors created a new test data set. The external auditors requested that the old data set also be run. The internal auditors embarrassingly explained that they overwrote the original test data set. Required: Outline any potential exposures and determine the courses of action the external auditor should take.

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