To: Bruce Darling From: Kenneth Neish ACTG 440 Case 2 – Application Controls a) A sales person should not be able to change the selling price of products without management authorization. Each time a product’s price is reduced beyond its sales price the manager should have to physically come up to the register and authorize the transaction. If the company implemented this segregation of duties control the salesperson could not get away with reducing the price of products to increase gross
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Span of control is refers to the number of direct reports a manager has. In other words it states the number of employees can a manager efficiently and effectively manage. The optimal numbers of subordinates supervised by a single executive is 5 to 6 in an average firm. It is importantly to note that managers that have more than six subordinates would soon lose track of what is going on in the organisation. Therefore the number of direct reports a manager can handle depends on the nature of the work
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Traditional versus New Concepts Analysis of Command and Control and their relationship with Leadership provides base for further examination of Command and Control relevance. In this section the validity of both traditional and new concepts will be scrutinized through the discussion how they can be applied in dealing with complex problems presented by contemporary operational environment and in support of achieving the higher tempo or shorter OODA loop that is critical for success dealing with other
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February 2009 pp. 63–76 Assessing Information Technology General Control Risk: An Instructional Case Carolyn Strand Norman‚ Mark D. Payne‚ and Valaria P. Vendrzyk ABSTRACT: Information Technology General Controls (ITGCs)‚ a fundamental category of internal controls‚ provide an overall foundation for reliance on any information produced by a system. Since the relation between ITGCs and the information produced by an organization’s various application programs is indirect‚ understanding how ITGCs interact
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MANAGE APPLICATION OF SCOPE CONTROLS Activity 3 1. There are a number of scope management issues that need to be addressed. Scope control might help prevent some of these issues. What is scope control? Change is inevitable and throughout the project life cycle the desire for change comes from different stakeholders. Scope control looks at the influencing factors that create changes to the project scope and how to control the impact of changes through the project Integrated Change Control process
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APPLICATION OF THE 6M CONTROL PLAN: Any process‚ even if well planned and controlled‚ can lose its stability at some point. As has been explained in Chapter 6‚ the correction and improvement of a process will consist of an analysis of its root cause. When an error occurs‚ we must analyze the cause and look for the culprit M of our 6Ms. The culprit could be any of the 6Ms‚ not necessarily the Manpower M. However‚ when there is an error people tend to blame the Manpower M‚ as has happened in the case
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Stacy Sharp Psyc281-33 General Psychology December 10th 2012 Research Question: Locus of control External Locus of Control-Individual believes that his/her behaviour is guided by fate‚ luck‚ other external circumstances. Internal Locus of Control-Individual believes that his/her behaviour is guided by his/her personal decisions and efforts. Carden‚ R.‚ Bryant‚ C.‚ & Moss‚ R. (2004). Locus of control‚ test anxiety‚ academic procrastination and achievement among college students. Psychological
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NRW-3A1-01 Ms. K. Smith Tracy Jones 16 January 2006 The following example shows what NOT to do for a title page: TITLE OF ESSAY: “GUN CONTROL: PROS AND CONS” COURSE CODE: “NRW-3A1-01” TO MY TEACHER: “MS. KATIE ELIZABETH SMITH” FROM YOUR STUDENT: “TRACY MARIA CHRISTINA CARMELA JONES” ASSIGNMENT DUE DATE: “MONDAY‚ JANUARY THE SIXTEENTH‚ IN THE YEAR 2006” It is not necessary to describe or explain the title page by adding the words: Title‚ Course Code‚ To‚ From‚ or Due Date. More is
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A. 1. Main Inputs and Data to the system are: * Clock Cards Payroll number Department Week Number Name Hours worked Salary * Timesheets Payroll Number Department Week Number Name Holiday Hours Overtime Hours Hours Worked Rate per hour Salary * Variance Returns Department Period (Month/Week number) Budgeted Salary to be paid (weekly/monthly) Actual Salary Paid (weekly/monthly) Variance * Commission Rates Payroll Number Department Name
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Locus of control describes to what extent a person believes that his life and destiny is in his own hands or‚ alternatively‚ to what extent his life is controlled by other factors. Therefore‚ lucus of control is separated into to different types. External locus of control‚ when person believes that external factors that cannot be changed influence his/her life and it cannot be controlled‚ and internal locus of control‚ when a person believes he is the master of his/her own destiny (Gilian F.)
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