Questions from Accounting Information Systems

Q: Your classmate asks you to explain flowcharting conventions using real-world

Your classmate asks you to explain flowcharting conventions using real-world examples. Draw each of the major flowchart symbols from memory, placing them into one of four categories: input/output, pro...

Q: Contrast the logical and the physical view of data and discuss

Contrast the logical and the physical view of data and discuss why separate views are necessary in database applications. Describe which perspective is most useful for each of the following employees...

Q: Answer the following questions about the audit of Springer’s Lumber &

Answer the following questions about the audit of Springer’s Lumber & Supply a. What deficiencies existed in the internal environment at Springer’s? b. Do you agree with the decision to settle with...

Q: For each of the following independent cases of employee fraud, recommend

For each of the following independent cases of employee fraud, recommend how to prevent similar problems in the future. a. Due to abnormal inventory shrinkage in the audiovisual department at a retail...

Q: When you go to a movie theater, you buy a prenumbered

When you go to a movie theater, you buy a prenumbered ticket from the cashier. This ticket is handed to another person at the entrance to the movie. What kinds of irregularities is the theater trying...

Q: Some restaurants use customer checks with prenumbered sequence codes. Each food

Some restaurants use customer checks with prenumbered sequence codes. Each food server uses these checks to write up customer orders. Food servers are told not to destroy any customer checks; if a mis...

Q: Explain what an event is. Using the Internet as a resource

Explain what an event is. Using the Internet as a resource, create a list of some of the many internal and external factors that COSO indicated could influence events and affect a company’s ability to...

Q: What is the relationship between COSO, COBIT, and the AICPA’s

What is the relationship between COSO, COBIT, and the AICPA’s Trust Services frameworks?

Q: What risks, if any, does offshore outsourcing of various

What risks, if any, does offshore outsourcing of various information systems functions pose to satisfying the principles of confidentiality and privacy?

Q: Should organizations permit personal use of e-mail systems by employees

Should organizations permit personal use of e-mail systems by employees during working hours?