During an audit of the human resources department, an internal auditor adopts benchmarking to test the employee turnover rate. How should the internal auditor apply this technique? 

A. Compare turnover m the organization to published turnover rates of peer organizations. 

B. Compare turnover in one period with turnover in the previous period in the organization 

C. Compare turnover in the period to total employees in the organization 

D. Compare turnover with the auditor's general knowledge of the organization