The following is a list of 9 control plans:
Control Plans
A. Customer credit check
B. Packing slip tickler file in shipping department
C. One-for-one checking of customer order and sales order
D. Populate inputs with master data
E. Online prompting
F. Preformatted screens
G. Programmed edit checks
H. Application documentation
I. Segregation of duties
REQUIRED: Listed next are nine statements describing either the achievement of a control goal (i.e., a system success) or a system deficiency. List the numbers 1 through 9 on your solution sheet. Next to each number, insert one letter from the preceding list, identifying the best control plan to achieve the desired goal or to address the system deficiency described. A letter should be used only once.
Control Goals or System Deficiencies
1. Helps to ensure the operations process goal of timely shipment of goods to customers.
2. Results in the efficient employment of resources; when the order entry clerk keys in the customer number, the system supplies the customer name, billing address, and other standing data about the customer.
3. Meets both the operations process goal that sales are made only to creditworthy customers and the information process control goal of sales order input validity.
4. Helps to achieve the information process control goal of input accuracy by ensuring that dates are entered as MM/DD/YYYY.
5. Helps to achieve the information process control goal of input accuracy by providing interactive dialogue with the data entry person.
6. Results in the efficient employment of resources by providing detailed instructions to computer operations personnel for running production jobs.
7. Addresses the information process control goals of both input accuracy and input completeness.
8. Could have prevented the clerk from entering 10 boxes of an item when a customer ordered 10 each of an item.