You are the audit senior assigned to the audit of Fix-IT Ltd, a motor vehicle spares company. You obtain an understanding of the
ordering function within the revenue and receipts cycle at Fix-IT Ltd. All orders are captured by the debtors' clerk who will input the
order on the revenue system by creating an internal sales order and capturing the order details. Which one of the following
programme controls should be implemented to ensure that the order quantity is accurate before processing the order?
a. Validation check
b. Limit check
c. Mandatory fields check.
d. Alpha numeric check
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Question 2
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Which ONE of the following activities by a governing body will not be considered as ethical?
Select one:
a. Making funds available to all staff for confidential annual HIV testing.
b. Donating 5% of the company profits to the local school to build better classrooms.
c. Reporting fraudulent activities committed by a manager to the governing body.
d. Claiming more VAT from SARS than the entity is entitled to.
You are the audit senior assigned to the audit of Fix-IT Ltd, a motor vehicle spares company. You obtain an understanding of the
inventory function from Mr Thato, the warehouse manager. Inventory counts are performed at year-end and the warehouse staff are
responsible for counting the inventory. Which of the following recommendations would you make to improve the inventory count
procedures. (Please note there could be more than one correct alternative.) Select all the correct alternatives.
a. Perform cycle inventory counts every three months.
b. A person independent of the warehouse staff should be responsible for counting the inventory.
c. Auditors should be present at the inventory count.
d. The inventory count should be performed by two personnel, one of whom should be independent of the warehouse.
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Which ONE of the following alternatives will not lead to the financial director being held liable in terms of the Companies Act 71 of
2008?
Select one:
a. failing to act in the best interest of the company.
b. failing to act in good faith and for a proper purpose.
c. failing to disclose to the board a personal financial interest.
d. failing to inform the board of all the environmental law changes.
Which ONE of the following internal controls is not an example of physical access control in a computerised environment?
Select one:
a. Users should provide unique user IDs and passwords to gain access to the system.
b. With the exception of IT personnel, company personnel do not need to enter the data centre; access should also be controlled.
c. Entry and exit points to the data centre should be limited to one and may be under closed-circuit TV surveillance.
d. The building in which the equipment that runs the computerised system is housed (for example the servers and CPU) should
have a dedicated room to which only a dedicated number of personnel should have access.
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