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Question #: 54
Topic #: 1
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An organization has developed a large database that tracks employees, employee benefits, payroll deductions, job classifications, and other similar information. In order to test whether data currently within the automated system are correct, an auditor should:

  • A. Use test data and determine whether all the data entered are captured correctly in the updated database.
  • B. Select a sample of data to be entered for a few days and trace the data to the updated database to determine the correctness of the updates.
  • C. Use generalized audit software to provide a printout of all employees with invalid job descriptions. Investigate the causes of the problems.
  • D. Use generalized audit software to select a sample of employees from the database. Verify the data fields.
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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️
by Pal_ki at Nov. 22, 2020, 11:08 a.m.

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Pal_ki
Highly Voted 1 year, 11 months ago
sorry, I understood the answer and its D
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basiclane
Most Recent 1 year, 3 months ago
Why is D? is it because reasonable assurance not absolute?
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John1237
5 months, 1 week ago
The internal auditor wants to know if the data recorded are correct. He/She should extract a sample and check the data fields.
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Pal_ki
1 year, 11 months ago
why not C? sometimes the whole population needs to be examined , invalid job descriptions can be filtered to find out the issue
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Mikoyan
3 months ago
For C, one can only verify the job description, whereas there are a range of other columns that are not being considered.
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