Principles Of Auditing & Other Assurance Services
21st Edition
ISBN: 9781259916984
Author: WHITTINGTON, Ray, Pany, Kurt
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Education,
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Internal auditors would most appropriately perform which of the following activities during a review of systems development activity?a. Serve on the MIS steering committee that determines what new systems are to be developed.b. Review the methodology used to monitor and control the system development function. c. Recommend specific automated procedures to be incorporated into new systems that will provide reasonable assurance that all data submitted to an application are converted to machine-readable form.d. Recommend specific operational procedures that will ensure that all data submitted for processing are converted to machine-readable form.
The increasing use of sophisticated EDP systems has produced significant changes in the accounting environment. The changes are:
Computer processing uniformly subjects like transactions to the same processing instructions.
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Discuss the impact on the internal control system and the independent audit.
When an auditor tests the internal controls of a computerized accounting system, which of the following is true of the test data approach?
A. Test data are coded to a dummy subsidiary so they can be extracted from the system under actual operating conditions.
B. Test data programs need NOT be tailor-made by the auditor for each client's computer applications.
C. Test data programs usually consist of all possible valid and invalid conditions reguarding compliance with internal controls.
D. Test data are processed with the client's computer and the results are compared with the auditor's predetermined results.
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