An internal auditor noticed that employees with responsibilities for cash collection had recently issued an unusually large number of credit memos, indicating that the original charges had been made to the wrong customer accounts. From a control standpoint, the auditor would be concerned with the possibility that:

During which of the following systems development stages would it be most useful for an internal auditor to be involved?

Which of the following recommendations made by the internal audit activity (IAA) is most likely to help prevent fraud?

Which of the following would be an appropriate and effective control self-assessment approach in an organization with an authoritative culture?
I.Facilitated meeting.
II.
Survey.
III.
Management-produced analysis.

During a review of performance measures in an organization's purchasing function, the preliminary survey indicates that most of the measures have been in use for some time. The internal auditor should: