You are a new employee at Southwest Parts Distributors, Inc. As a specialist in accounting information systems, one of your responsibilities is to recommend adequate controls to ensure the safety of Southwest

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s data, including the data it keeps on suppliers and customers. You recently recommended that the company adopt a new set of control procedures. However, Southwest

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s regional manager, Bill Tomlinson, has expressed impatience with your recommendations. He views the new procedures as

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unnecessary red tape.

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Write a memo to Mr

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s data.