of the company’s controls that it takes to mitigate fraud. Most auditors should have realized this risk involved, having the treasurer in charge of pensions without no supervision or checks on what he had been doing. c. The small city should have segregated these duties of treasurer and management of retirement plans. They should not have had one person in charge of both these duties. In addition, the city should have monitoring in place to double check everything is being done properly. As
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.2.4 Locus of Control: History of Locus of Control: The cognitive-learning tradition in psychology views human beings as independent thinkers. It gives less importance to reinforcement shaping human behaviour unlike the behaviouristic tradition. It focuses on the personal values we attribute to certain outcomes in our life and our expectancies about being able to achieve the set goals. Locus of Control is one of the types of expectancies within the social learning tradition, proposed by Julian B
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Mapping Business Control with IT Application: An IS Auditor can help ensure that necessary business controls can be mapped into the application control. He/She can ascertain that the Business controls are put in the developmental stage itself, if employed at the project stage. Business Process Re-engineering: There is a difference in automation and computerisation, in the former the existing manual process is automated using computers and in the latter the existing process. In the latter
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develop relationships and responsibilities that are close to the normative standard. In a persons early life they have the influence of their family, their friends, and school. As that person ages their social control shifts to higher education, or vocational education. In middle adulthood that control shifts to work, marriage, parenthood, and giving back to the community. The theory argues that by having these bonds throughout
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Assignment 3: Input Controls and Restricting User Interface INPUT CONTROLS No matter how data enters an information system, the quality of the output is only as good as the quality of the input. When developing or purchasing a new system or application, it is important that the system or application has adequate input controls. “Input controls ensure the complete and accurate recording of authorized transactions by only authorized users; identify rejected, suspended, and duplicate items;
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Gun Control GM 520 – Legal, Political and Ethical Dimensions Prof. David S. Carter By: Mustufa Husain Table of Contents Introduction 3 Gun Laws Internationally 4 Gun Control and the Second Amendment 7 Conclusion 12 Introduction I often wonder, should any citizen around the world be able to carry firearms? Can a person really feel safe from crime no matter where they may go? According to the bill of rights, the second amendment to the constitution of the
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long chain that trailed after one, no matter how far one went," and Clifford intends to keep the chain around Connie until he can pass on the family name to his illegitimate child (Lawrence 172). For Connie, the chain links were holding her from being free and she becomes trapped even further within her marriage. “One was less in love with the boy afterwards…as if he had trespassed on one's privacy and
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Gun Control Gun control and Gun right in America Throughout American history, gun control has been an issue in United States. In recent years, proponents of gun control legislation have often held that of only federal laws can be effected in United States. Although, it’s believed that in the absence of guns criminal violence would be much reduced. In reality, it’s a wrong concept. Meanwhile, most people in United States carry guns for the matter of protection. However, some argue the
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Security Controls are necessary in protecting data and stopping attacks both before they happen and after they happen. With Controls in place we can help prevent them and detect after a security breach as occurred. For ABC credit union the following security controls would be enforced: Preventative Control: Separation of duties. Having separation of duties will ensure that not one person will have full access to a database. It can be monitored and overlooked by multiple people so if there is a
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E4-5 A) This weaknesses in internal control over cash disbursements is the many people who have access to the un-issued checks. The checks should be in a vault or safe with restricted access and only authorized personnel with access. Another weakness in internal control over cash disbursements is that the Idaho Company uses checks that are not pre-numbered. Idaho’s Company should use checks that are numbered as well as imprinted with the amount in inedible ink. This can cause some major errors in
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