Auditing And Assurance Services
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Author: ARENS, Alvin A.
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 12, Problem 18.2MCQ
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Identify the primary objective of designing the automated control for validating the sequence of items to identify any breaks in sequence of input documents.
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