The following situations have occurred during the year at your audit client, Electric Blue Ltd, a large chemical company:

1. A clerk entered the wrong account number for a customer while entering the sales transactions for the day on the computer. As a result, that customers purchases were entered on the account of another customer, who was very annoyed when he received a bill for goods he had not ordered or received.
2. A data entry clerk incorrectly entered a customer payment of $575.00 instead of $5,750.00.
3. During a demonstration against Electric Blue Ltds environmental record, several people forced their way into the companys computer centre, which was on te main level of the office building. The protestors smashed the computer equipment and damaged other office equipment. As a result the companys computer system was inoperable for several days.
4. A computer operator on the night shift knows more about the companys computer system than anyone else. During a period of several months, she accessed the master payroll program, which was stored online, and increased her tax withholding so that she would get a large refund when she filed her tax return.

1) Identify a control policy or procedure that would have prevented or detected each of the situations above.