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Accounting Information Systems
How does a cost recovery system for information systems chargeback differ from a transfer pricing approach to information systems chargeback?
What are the likely consequences of not charging users for their consumption of information systems resources?
Which of the following is an information property concerned with the degree of detail in information?(a) accuracy(b) conciseness(c) relevance(d) quantifiability
Which of the following is an information property concerned with the degree to which information measures what it purports to measure?(a) accuracy(b) conciseness(c) relevance(d) quantifiability
Which of the following is an information property concerned with the degree of difficulty in representing a given event numerically?(a) accuracy(b) conciseness(c) relevance(d) quantifiability
Which of the following is an information property concerned with how well information relates to a given decision?(a) accuracy(b) conciseness(c) relevance(d) quantifiability
Which of the following is a type of budget that specifically allows for varying levels of activity?(a) master budget(b) flexible budget(c) profit budget(d) static budget
Which of the following types of reports assist in acquiring and allocating resources for future operations?(a) master reports(b) control reports(c) operational reports(d) planning reports
Which of the following might be described as status reports?(a) master reports(b) control reports(c) operational reports(d) planning reports
Which of the following terms is used to describe a request for information contained in a database?(a) report(b) dialog(c) query(d) seek
Microcomputer spreadsheet software is a common example of which of the following?(a) expert system(b) decision support system(c) executive information system(d) reporting system
Consider the following payoff matrix for a golddigger:What is the value of perfect information?(a) \(\$ 0\)(b) \(\$ 8,000\)(c) \(\$ 32,000\)(d) \(\$ 40,000\) STATE OF NATURE PROBABILITY DIG Gold 0.2
Identify the major features of just-in-time (JIT) production.
Identify several controls relevant to fixed assets and investments.
Distinguish between MRP and MRP II.
Describe several different types of support functions that are typically provided by CADD.
Describe support functions that are typically provided by CAM.
Describe several uses of automatic identification in production activities.
Describe the flow of processing necessary to support manufacturing resource planning (MRP II) systems.
For several years a client's physical inventory count has been lower than what was shown on the books at the time of the count requiring downward adjustments to the inventory account. Contributing to
Ball Company, which has no perpetual inventory records, takes a monthly physical inventory and reorders any item that is less than its reorder point. On February 5, 20XX, Ball ordered 5,000 units of
Sanbor Corporation has an inventory of parts consisting of thousands of different items of small value individually but significant in total. Sanbor could establish effective internal accounting
To achieve effective internal accounting control over fixed-asset additions, a company should establish procedures that require(a) capitalization of the cost of fixed-asset additions in excess of a
Which of the following is an internal accounting control weakness related to factory equipment?(a) Checks issued in payment of purchases of equipment are not signed by the controller.(b) All
Which of the following internal accounting control procedures could best prevent direct labor from being charged to manufacturing overhead?(a) reconciliation of work-in-process inventory with cost
Which of the following is a question the auditor would expect to find on the production cycle section of an internal accounting control questionnaire?(a) Are vendors' invoices for raw materials
Which of the following is the most important element of internal control relating to the raw materials inventory of a manufacturing company?(a) The physical-inventory count should be made by
A well-functioning system of internal control over the inventory/production functions would provide that finished goods are to be accepted for stock only after presentation of a completed production
If preparation of a periodic scrap report is essential in order to maintain adequate control over the manufacturing process, the data for this report should be accumulated in the(a) accounting
Which of the following is (are) a typical example of batch processing?(a) processing weekly time reports to produce paychecks(b) processing groups of checks to update accounts payable files(c) both a
Accumulating source documents into groups prior to processing is a characteristic of ( _____________ ).(a) batch processing(b) on-line, real-time processing(c) both a and b(d) neither a nor \(b\)
Which of the following errors would probably be corrected by key verification of data input?(a) A salesperson manually enters an incorrect product number on a sales invoice, which is subsequently
Which of the following controls would prevent this situation? Due to transposed letters in his department identification code, a worker's paycheck was incorrectly processed. Instead of "CAB," he
The "son-father-grandfather" concept of backing up master files can be used when master files are stored on ( _____________ ).(a) magnetic tape(b) magnetic disk(c) both a and b(d) neither a nor b
A review of an EDP' system reveals the following items. Which of these is a potential internal control weakness?(a) Backup master files are stored in a remote location.(b) Users must verbally approve
For control purposes, data clerks total up the employee social security numbers in each batch of payroll transactions. Which of the following terms best describes the resulting total?(a) hash
In an on-line computer system, which of the following may be used to ensure that users have proper authorization to perform a task?(a) check digits(b) passwords(c) control totals(d) limit tests
For control purposes, data clerks total up the employee gross pay amounts in each batch of payroll transactions. Which of the following terms best describes the resulting total?(a) hash total(b)
A customer inadvertently orders part number 1234-8 instead of 1243-8. Which of the following controls would detect this error during processing?(a) hash total(b) financial total(c) limit check(d)
Describe program data editing. Is program data editing necessary if input data has been key-verified? Explain.
Identify and describe several program data editing techniques.
Describe how the loss of paper-based internal controls can be compensated for in paperless input systems.
Give an example of automatic identification in a paperless input system that requires human intervention.
Give an example of a paperless input system that requires no human intervention.
Describe batch processing of transactions in a paper-based processing system. When is batch processing most economical?
What type of EDP system is characterized by data that are assembled from more than one location and records that are updated immediately?(a) microcomputer system(b) minicomputer system(c) batch
An EDP technique that collects data into groups to permit convenient and efficient processing is known as(a) document-count processing.(b) multiprogramming.(c) batch processing.(d) generalized-audit
What is the computer process called when data processing is performed concurrently with a particular activity and the results are available soon enough to influence the particular course of action
The real-time feature normally would be least useful when applied to accounting for a firm's(a) bank account balances.(b) property and depreciation.(c) customer accounts receivable.(d) merchandise
An internal administrative control sometimes used in connection with procedures to detect unauthorized or unexplained computer usage is(a) maintenance of a computer tape library.(b) use of file
A procedural control used in the management of a computer center to minimize the possibility of data or program file destruction through operator error includes(a) control figures.(b) cross-footing
In designing a payroll system, it is known that no individual's paycheck can amount to more than \(\$ 300\) for a single week. As a result, the payroll program has been written to bypass writing a
Where disk files are used, the grandfather-father-son updating backup concept is relatively difficult to implement because the(a) location of information points on disks is an extremely
A customer inadvertently ordered part number 12368 rather than part number 12638. In processing this order, the error would be detected by the vendor with which of the following controls?(a) batch
In the weekly computer run to prepare payroll checks, a check was printed for an employee who had been terminated the previous week. Which of the following controls, if properly utilized, would have
Accounting functions that are normally considered incompatible in a manual system are often combined in an EDP system by using an EDP program or a series of programs. This necessitates an accounting
Totals of amounts in computer-record data fields that are not usually added for other purposes but are used only for data processing control purposes are called(a) record totals.(b) hash totals.(c)
The use of a header label in conjunction with magnetic tape is most likely to prevent errors by the(a) computer operator.(b) data entry clerk.(c) computer programmer.(d) maintenance technician.
Where computers are used, the effectiveness of internal accounting control depends, in part, on whether the organizational structure includes any incompatible combinations. Such a combination would
The basic form of backup used in magnetic tape operations is called(a) odd parity check.(b) dual-head processing.(c) file protection rings.(d) the son-father-grandfather concept.
An effective control designed to provide reasonable assurance that hourly payroll information has been entered accurately into the computer system is to(a) establish the use of batch-control totals
Carmela Department Stores has a fully integrated EDP accounting system and is planning to issue credit cards to creditworthy customers. To strengthen internal control by making it difficult for one
One of the major problems in an EDP system is that incompatible functions may be performed by the same individual. One compensating control for this is use of(a) a tape library.(b) a self-checking
The primary documentation upon which a company should rely for an explanation of how a particular program operates is the(a) run manual.(b) periodic memory dump.(c) maintenance of three generations
The use of external labels in conjunction with magnetic tape storage is most likely to prevent errors that might be made by which of the following?(a) a computer programmer(b) a systems analyst(c) a
An on-line sales order processing system most likely would have an advantage over a batch sales order processing system by(a) detecting errors in the data entry process more easily by the use of edit
Which of the following is a general control that would most likely assist an entity whose systems analyst left the entity in the middle of a major project?(a) grandfather-father-son record
Consider the following numerical input data utilized in an accounts receivable application:Required (a) For the above data, calculate an example of each of the following: hash total, financial total,
Which of the following functions is not a user in the systems development process?(a) information systems(b) sales(c) production(d) accounting
Which of the following functions works directly with users to identify their specific information requirements:(a) operations(b) systems design(c) systems analysis(d) programming
An analysis that is undertaken to determine the value of further considering a project is called ( __________ ).(a) information assessment(b) project acceptability(c) a feasibility study(d)
The document that provides a narrative description of a proposed system's operational characteristics is called ( __________ ) .(a) user specifications(b) conceptual design(c) an operating
What document is a translation of the conceptual design into the detailed systems performance and functional specifications necessary to begin the physical design of the system?(a) logical flow
Which of the following tools is central to the application of CASE (computeraided software engineering) technology?(a) repository(b) project management(c) diagramming tools(d) syntax verifiers
The ability of objects from different classes to respond in their own appropriate manner to common messages is called ( __________ ).(a) encapsulation(b) class action(c) polymorphism(d) inheritance
The process of extracting reusable code segments from existing software and then restructuring this code to enhance its efficiency and reusability is known as ( __________ ).(a) prototyping(b)
The project team leader for a systems development project should have direct responsibility to the ( __________ ).(a) user department(b) information systems department(c) steering committee(d)
Which of the following is a characteristic of structured programming (SP)?(a) modular program code(b) polymorphism(c) bottom-up design(d) multiple entry and exit points
Identify some user-related problems that have historically plagued the development of computer-based information systems.
Identify several systems development practices in each of the following areas:(a) documentation standards(b) analyst/programmer productivity(c) maintenance and program change(d) database
What are structured analysis and structured programming?
What is CASE (computer-aided software engineering)?
Describe the following CASE tools:(a) repository(b) diagramming tools(c) syntax verifiers(d) prototyping(e) code generation(f) project management
Describe the following aspects of object-oriented programming:(a) objects(b) encapsulation(c) inheritance
What is prototyping?
What are some factors that should be considered when selecting a project leader?
What is the objective of project breakdown?
Identify several types of adjustments that might be made to basic time estimates in a project breakdown.
Identify the basic components of a project accounting system.
Do project costs always have to be charged to users? If not, why is a project accounting system necessary?
A data processing department uses the measure line of program code as a means to evaluate the performance of the programming staff in the department. What types of problems might a single measure
The success of a computer-based system is affected by the quality of programming and the integrity of the input data.Required(a) List three procedures that should be followed by a programmer before a
Identify the types of costs that are likely to be incurred by an organization when it makes a major computer system acquisition. Classify the costs you identify as one-time costs for recurring costs.
The documentation of data processing applications is an important step in the design and implementation of any computer-based system. Documentation provides a complete record of data processing
You have been assigned the responsibility of systems developer for the PBC Company. The company manufactures electronic components on a specialorder basis. Most of the company's business relates to
The Even Manufacturing Company is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It has a reasonably simple purchasing system that works as follows: The raw materials inventory manager notifies purchasing when
Green Manufacturing produces candles and has approximately 50 employees. The candles are distributed to major supply points throughout the United States. At present, the company's accounting system
Quick Manufacturing is a defense contractor that produces high-technology weapons systems for the U.S. Air Force. Most of its contracts are valued in the millions of dollars and take approximately
Stuart Life Insurance is a large national life insurance company that specializes in whole-life policies. At present, the company has sales offices in every state in the United States, except Alaska
It is crucial that all major systems development efforts have the support of (the) ( ______________ ) .(a) steering committee(b) top management(c) chief systems analyst(d) controller
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