the foundation of internal controls. Page 253 of your AIS textbook, provides a chart with different control goals with definitions and examples. I want you to share a control that you have executed or observed and tell us what control goal that it applies too. Your example can be related to a business, accounting or your personal life. . . . any type of internal control.

Control Goal	Definitions	Discussion
Control Goals of Operations Processes
Ensure effectiveness of operations by achieving selected goals for the operations process.	Effectiveness: A measure of success in meeting one or more goals for the operations process.	If we assume that one of Suprinas goals is to acknowledge customer orders in a timely manner, the operations process is effective if orders are acknowledged with a copy of the customer order when the order is taken by the sales rep.
Ensure efficient employment of resources (e.g., people, computers).	Efficiency: A measure of the productivity of the resources applied to achieve a set of goals.	The cost of the people, computers, and other resources needed to process customer orders each day.
Ensure security of resources (e.g., cash, data assets, inventory).	Security of resources: Protecting an organizations resources from loss, destruction, disclosure, copying, sale, or other misuse.	Physical (e.g., inventory) and nonphysical (e.g., information) resources are available when required and put only to authorized use.
Control Goals of Information Processes
Ensure input validity (IV)	Input validity: Input data are appropriately authorized and represent actual economic events and objects.	Only customer orders received from actual customers should be input into the Suprina process.
Ensure input completeness (IC).	Input completeness: All valid events or objects are captured and entered into a system once and only once.	All valid customer orders are entered into the Suprina process once and only once.
Ensure input accuracy (IA)	Input accuracy: All valid events must be correctly captured and entered into a system.	The customer, item numbers, quantities, and prices must be keyed correctly into the sales rep laptops.
Ensure update completeness (UC).	Update completeness: All events entered into a system must be reflected in the respective master data once and only once.	All customer orders entered must be recorded in the sales order and inventory master data once and only once.
Ensure update accuracy (UA).	Update accuracy: Data entered into a system must be reflected correctly in the respective master data.	All customer orders entered must be correctly recorded in the sales order and inventory master data.