Exam 5: Reporting Process, Coding Methods, and Audit Trails

17 What is a set of processing references that enables the tracing of an event from its source to its destination or from its destination back to its sources known as?

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Question 61

What are dictionaries of element names that represent financial report concepts?

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Question 62

Receipt of a sales order could be used for event coding in accounting information systems.

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Question 63

Describe a situation where a report should be generated weekly or even daily and give two examples of reports a manager would probably want to receive daily.

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Question 64

Which of the following computer languages would best support the activity of identifying the balances of the cash and cash equivalent accounts of several companies and extracting them to an electronic spreadsheet for analysis?

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Question 65

Record sequencing is the process of placing data in a specified order.

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Question 66

Which of the following is the appropriate format for an element in XBRL?

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Question 67

A sequence code uniquely identifies an object and is assigned in numerical sequence.

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Question 68

Responsibility reporting is the process of reporting data to a manager that measure activities over which the manager has some authority and for which the manager is held responsible.

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Question 69

The most common reporting of physical units is for which of the following?

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Question 70

What type of reporting includes data that measure activities over which a particular manager has some authority?

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Question 71

What is the primary benefit of creating XBRL financial reports and electronically disseminating them?

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Question 72

Effective exception reporting requires the ability to select records based on the similarities between an account's current balance and its prior year's balance.

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Question 73

What kind of reporting calls for arranging together actual data for a current period and actual data for a prior period?

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Question 74

Which of the following formats would most likely eliminate reentry of data and significantly reduce reporting costs for a business?

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Question 75

What is one problem with exception reporting?

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Question 76

Which of the following is not a general principle that forms a foundation for effective reporting?

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Question 77

Which of the following is a general principle of effective reporting?

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Question 78

Postal zip codes are examples of which type of coding system?

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Question 79

What is the arranging of records in order of severity of the problem with the most severe t the beginning of the reports known as?

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17 What is a set of processing references that enables the tracing of an event from its source to its destination or from its destination back to its sources known as?

What are dictionaries of element names that represent financial report concepts?

Receipt of a sales order could be used for event coding in accounting information systems.

Describe a situation where a report should be generated weekly or even daily and give two examples of reports a manager would probably want to receive daily.

Which of the following computer languages would best support the activity of identifying the balances of the cash and cash equivalent accounts of several companies and extracting them to an electronic spreadsheet for analysis?

Record sequencing is the process of placing data in a specified order.

Which of the following is the appropriate format for an element in XBRL?

A sequence code uniquely identifies an object and is assigned in numerical sequence.

Responsibility reporting is the process of reporting data to a manager that measure activities over which the manager has some authority and for which the manager is held responsible.

The most common reporting of physical units is for which of the following?

What type of reporting includes data that measure activities over which a particular manager has some authority?

What is the primary benefit of creating XBRL financial reports and electronically disseminating them?

Effective exception reporting requires the ability to select records based on the similarities between an account's current balance and its prior year's balance.

What kind of reporting calls for arranging together actual data for a current period and actual data for a prior period?

Which of the following formats would most likely eliminate reentry of data and significantly reduce reporting costs for a business?

What is one problem with exception reporting?

Which of the following is not a general principle that forms a foundation for effective reporting?

Which of the following is a general principle of effective reporting?

Postal zip codes are examples of which type of coding system?

What is the arranging of records in order of severity of the problem with the most severe t the beginning of the reports known as?

Significance of Accounting Information Systems and the Accountants Role

Accounting Systems Documentation

Essential Elements and Basic Activities of Accounting Systems

Data Flows, Activities, and Structure of Accounting Systems

Internal Control and Risk Assessment

Control Activities

The Financial Process

The Revenue Process

The Purchasing Process

The Inventory Process

Database Structure of Accounting Systems

Developing a Relational Database for an Accounting Information System

Electronic Business

Ais Selection and Implementation

Filters