The letter p in the acronym erp stands for

Accounting Information Systems I

Week 5

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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Section 302 focuses on ?

a) Enhanced financial disclosures

b) Corporate responsibility for financial reports

c) Management assessment of internal controls

d) Real time issue disclosures

2. Which of the following is true?

a) An AIS must be computerized to be useful

b) An AIS always produces useful information

c) An AIS always produces financial information

d) none of these

3. The letter “P” in the acronym “ERP” stands for:

a) Production

b) Planning

c) Project

d) none of these

4. Which of the following is one of the five interacting components of an accounting information system?

a) Fuzzy logic

b) Testing

c) Certification

d) Procedures

e) Internet

5. Time cards, packing slips, reservation screens, and bank deposits screens best describes which of the following?

a. Data transcription

b. Point-of-sale devices

c. Source documents

d. Turnaround documents

e. Data transaction documents

6. When an individual prepares a document flowchart, the names of the various organizational departments involved in the accounting information system should be listed:

a) Along the righthand margin of the flowchart

b) Along the lefthand margin of the flowchart

c) In the title of the flowchart

d) In the column headings of the flowchart

7. The document flowchart symbol for a manual file (such as a file cabinet of accounts receivable invoices) is:

a) b) c) d)

8. A general ledger:

Is a chronological listing of an organization’s transactions

b) Is a listing of an organization’s transactions, organized by account

c) Does not include every account in an organization’s chart of accounts

d) Is the same thing as a transaction listing

9. The financial accounting cycle ends with:

a. The production of financial statements

b) Closing journal entries

c) The production of an adjusted trial balance

d) Development of cash forecasts

10. An important input to the sales process is:

a) A customer sales order

b) The cash forecast

c) Aged accounts receivable information

d) A receiving report

11. The primary objective of a manufacturing organization’s production process is to:

a) Maintain inventories at a zero level

b) Convert raw materials into finished goods as efficiently as possible

c) Make sure that there are no product defects

d) Maintain the documentation and report on an organization’s manufacturing process

12. The largest expense item on a manufacturing organization’s income statement is most likely to be:

a. Salaries for production workers

b. The depreciation associated with manufacturing equipment

c. The cost of direct materials

d. Cost of goods sold

The current Statement on Auditing Standards that deals with fraud in a financial statement audit is:

SAS No. 55

b) SAS No. 78

c) SAS No. 82

d) SAS No. 99

Hacking involves:

Stealing carbons of credit cards

b) Destroying computer hardware

c) Gaining illegal entry to computer files from remote locations

d) Inserting a logic bomb in a computer program

Three objectives of a company's internal control system should be safeguarding assets, checking the accuracy and reliability of accounting data, and promoting operational efficiency. A fourth objective of a company's internal control system should be:

e. Preventing embezzlement of assets

f. Encouraging adherence to prescribed managerial policies

g. Avoiding the payment of overtime to company employees

h. Revising standards for production costs on a weekly basis

The control environment is a component of a company's internal control system that:

i. Influences the control awareness of a company's employees

j. Stresses the development of control procedures in a company

k. Directly affects the accuracy and reliability of a company’s accounting data

l. Can be ignored when establishing a company's internal control system

The preventative controls within a company’s internal control system:

m. Form the foundation for all of a company's other internal control components

n. Focus on management’s philosophy and operating style

o. Ignore the risk factor associated with a company's control procedures

p. Relate to safeguarding a company's assets and checking the accuracy and reliability of the company's accounting data

18. Which of these is not a phase in the life cycle of an information system?

a) Planning

b) Analysis

c) Control

d) Implementation

19. The four phases of the systems development life cycle end with this phase:

a) Analysis

b) Design

c) Implementation, follow-up, and maintenance

d) Development

1. One way to create a VAN is to use a VPN. The letter “N” in VPN stands for:

a) Network

b) Notice

c) Nanosecond

d) Nothing