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Q: Rogers, North, & Housour, LLC, is a large

Rogers, North, & Housour, LLC, is a large, regional CPA firm. There are 74 employees at their Glen Allen, SC office. The administrative assistant at this office approached Mr. Rogers, one of the partners...

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Q: The Ashland Company recently hired you to review its control procedures for

The Ashland Company recently hired you to review its control procedures for the purchase, receipt, storage, and issuance of raw materials. You prepared the following comments, which describe Ashland’s...

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Q: Listed are 12 internal control procedures or requirements for the expenditure cycle

Listed are 12 internal control procedures or requirements for the expenditure cycle (purchasing, payroll, accounts payable, and cash disbursements) of a manufacturing enterprise. For each of the follo...

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Q: Ron Mitchell is currently working his first day as a ticket seller

Ron Mitchell is currently working his first day as a ticket seller and cashier at the First Run Movie Theater. When a customer walks up to the ticket booth, Ron collects the required admission charge a...

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Q: You have been retained as a consultant to the Bentley Company,

You have been retained as a consultant to the Bentley Company, and the primary reason they think they need your expertise is to networked PCs. The company maintains fairly extensive databases regardin...

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Q: Susan Boyd graduated summa cum laude from State University as an accounting

Susan Boyd graduated summa cum laude from State University as an accounting major and is now working for a medium-size company. Susan was very clever and quickly realized that she could set up several...

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Q: The management of Wiley Coyote Inc. decided that they needed an

The management of Wiley Coyote Inc. decided that they needed an outside consultant to help them determine which application controls should be implemented for the company’s accounting data processing....

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Q: Pucinneli Supermarkets is similar to most other grocery store chains that use

Pucinneli Supermarkets is similar to most other grocery store chains that use the 12-digit UPC code on packages to check out customers. For a variety of reasons, it is important that the computer syst...

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Q: Identify one or more control procedures (either general or application controls

Identify one or more control procedures (either general or application controls, or both) that would guard against each of the following errors or problems. a. Leslie Thomas, a secretary at the univer...

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Q: Disgruntled employees can be a significant source of problems for any company

Disgruntled employees can be a significant source of problems for any company as we indicate in this problem. Andi Boyd is a very accomplished computer programmer, but she had a grudge against the comp...

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