Preventing Fraud and Errors in Financial Statements
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Which of the following can result in fraud and errors that can cause financial statements to be materially misstated?

  • Lack of supervision (correct)
  • Adequate segregation of duties
  • Granting appropriate access privileges
  • Assigning compatible duties to an individual

Access control issues can be similar to which of the following exposure issues?

  • Assigning incompatible duties to an individual
  • Concealing the crime
  • Granting inappropriate access privileges (correct)
  • Collusion

What can assigning incompatible duties to an individual often lead to?

  • Appropriate access privileges
  • Unauthorized access to assets
  • Concealing the crime (correct)
  • Collusion

What can be used to test all of the management assertions outlined in Table 10.1?

<p>Reviewing the segregation of duties (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What may not be apparent from an organizational chart?

<p>Covert relationships (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is the purpose of output controls?

<p>To identify operational and internal control problems (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is an example of an output control?

<p>Exception report derived from the Suppliers Invoice file (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Where is system output needed for processing accuracy review and error detection?

<p>At intermediate junctures (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What can an exception report derived from the Suppliers Invoice file help management assess?

<p>Operational performance of the accounts payable process (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What should the total of all reductions to accounts payable equal to?

<p>The total of all cash disbursements to vendors (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is NOT a purpose of output controls?

<p>To provide end-of-day reporting (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of report can help management assess the operational performance of the accounts payable process?

<p>Exception report derived from the Suppliers Invoice file (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What can output controls be designed to identify?

<p>Operational and internal control problems (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

At which junctures is system output needed for processing accuracy review and error detection?

<p>Intermediate junctures (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What can an exception report derived from the Suppliers Invoice file help identify?

<p>Discounts lost (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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