At the end of chapter one there is a case company (real world) that processes data electronically. The company uses MERLIN (to process both purchasing and receiving transactions) and ORACLE Financials (to process payment related transactions).This two elements of the company's Electronic Data Processing (EDP) are linked by the Department of Information Technology (DIT) as a liaison ,i.e, DIT is responsible for migrating purchasing and receiving documents to the Disbursement/Payment section of Accounting and Finance.

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After carefully analyzing the case (at the end of the first chapter) in connection with the above brief introduction of the system, identify possible areas of control (general and application) weakness and suggest how the weakness can be rectified.(10 points)