An employee in the receiving department keyed in a shipment from a remote terminal and inadvertently omitted the purchase order number. The best systems control to detect this error would be aa. batch total.b. completeness test.c. sequence check.d. reasonableness test.e. compatibility test.

An employee in the receiving department keyed in a shipment from a remote terminal and inadvertently omitted the purchase order number. The best systems control to detect this error would be aa. batch total.b. completeness test.c. sequence check.d. reasonableness test.e. compatibility test.

Accounting Information Systems

10th Edition

ISBN:9781337619202

Author:Hall, James A.

Publisher:Hall, James A.

Chapter16: Auditing It Controls Part Iii: Systems Development, Program Changes, And Application Auditing

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 1P

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