Accounting Information Systems
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ISBN: 9781337552127
Author: Ulric J. Gelinas, Richard B. Dull, Patrick Wheeler, Mary Callahan Hill
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 11, Problem 6SP
Summary Introduction
To match: The control goals or system deficiencies with the control plans.
Introduction:
B/AR/CR process:
It is an accounting process with an interacting structure of different process supporting the decision-making activities of the
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Following is a list of eight generic control goals (A-H), followed by eight descriptions of either process failures (i.e., control goals not met) or instances of successful control plans (i.e., plans that helped to achieve controls goals).
List the numbers 1 through 8 in the table below. Each number represents one of the described situations on the page below. In the table, next to each number, place the capital letter of the control goal that best matches the situation described.
Hint: Some letters may be used more than once in each situation. Conversely, some letters may not be used at all.
Control goals:
Ensure effectiveness of operations
Ensure efficient employment of resources
Ensure security of resources
Ensure input validity
Ensure input completeness
Ensure input accuracy
Ensure update completeness
Ensure update accuracy
Situations:
Instead of preparing deposit slips by hand, Kaley Company has them generated by the computer. The company does so to speed up the deposit…
Following is a list of eight generic control goals (A-H), followed by eight descriptions of either process failures (i.e., control goals not met) or instances of successful control plans (i.e., plans that helped to achieve controls goals).
List the numbers 1 through 8 in the table below. Each number represents one of the described situations on the page below. In the table, next to each number, place the capital letter of the control goal that best matches the situation described.
Hint: Some letters may be used more than once in each situation. Conversely, some letters may not be used at all.
Control goals:
Ensure effectiveness of operations
Ensure efficient employment of resources
Ensure security of resources
Ensure input validity
Ensure input completeness
Ensure input accuracy
Ensure update completeness
Ensure update accuracy
Situations:
Instead of preparing deposit slips by hand, Kaley Company has them generated by the computer. The company does so to speed up the deposit…
The following is a list of six control plans from this chapter or from Chapter 9 and Chapter 10. These are followed by a list of five statements describing either the achievement of a control goal (i.e., a system success) or a system deficiency (i.e., a system failure). Match the five control goals or system deficiencies with a control plan that would best achieve the desired goal or prevent the system deficiency. A letter may be used only once, with one letter left over.
Control Plans
Review shipped not billed sales orders
Turnaround documents
Deposit slip file
Procedures for rejected inputs
Computer agreement of batch totals
Document design
Control Goals or System Deficiencies
The shipping clerk could not read the quantity picked that had been written on the picking ticket by the warehouse clerks.
In a periodic/batch environment, helps to ensure the information system control goal of input completeness of the shipping notices.
Helps to ensure that…
Chapter 11 Solutions
Accounting Information Systems
Ch. 11 - What is the billing/accounts receivable/cash...Ch. 11 - What primary activities does the B/AR/CR process...Ch. 11 - Prob. 3RQCh. 11 - What functions are typically segregated in the...Ch. 11 - Prob. 5RQCh. 11 - Describe several ways that companies have reduced...Ch. 11 - Prob. 7RQCh. 11 - Prob. 8RQCh. 11 - Prob. 9RQCh. 11 - What is accounts receivable master data?
Ch. 11 - What are the major features of a balance-forward...Ch. 11 - What are the differences between a post-billing...Ch. 11 - Prob. 13RQCh. 11 - Prob. 14RQCh. 11 - What characterizes a valid RA (i.e., cash...Ch. 11 - Prob. 16RQCh. 11 - Prob. 17RQCh. 11 - Develop several examples of possible goal...Ch. 11 - Prob. 2DQCh. 11 - Prob. 3DQCh. 11 - Prob. 4DQCh. 11 - Prob. 5DQCh. 11 - The two most widely used billing systems are (1)...Ch. 11 - Prob. 7DQCh. 11 - Prob. 1SPCh. 11 - Prob. 2SPCh. 11 - Prob. 3SPCh. 11 - Prob. 5SPCh. 11 - Prob. 6SPCh. 11 - Prob. 3PCh. 11 - Prob. 5PCh. 11 - Prob. 6PCh. 11 - Use the DFDs in Figure 11.3 (pg. 416), Figure 11.4...
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