Question 6

TLY sell building materials such as bricks sacks of concrete and paving slabs to builders Materials are kept in a large yard Customer orders are fulfilled by a team of 30 employees who use forklift trucks to move sold items to the loading bay, from where they are loaded onto lornes for dispatch to the customer The sales office prepares dispatch notes, which are used by the yard employees to identify the items that have been ordered Which TWO of the following controls would be cost-effective ways to prevent the theft of inventory by TLY's staff?
  • Question 7

    BCD has recently experienced a cyber security breach which fortunately was carried out by someone more interested in demonstrating the weakness in its defence than by someone malicious This has made BCD realise that its cyber defence is inadequate BCD has engaged a cyber security consultant who has advised BCD to set up a Computer Incident Response Team (GIRT) What THREE of the following activities would this CIRT have responsibility for?
    Recruit specialist security staff to avoid an incident
  • Question 8

    Company A's gross profit percentage has fallen from 70% to 61 % Which of the following possible explanations would most concern the internal auditors?
  • Question 9

    A government department is conducting a value for money audit on a school.
    The school's pupils sit leaving exams. Classify each of the audit tests as either economy and efficiency or effectiveness.

    Question 10

    P Ltd manufactures and sells electrical goods through retail outlets.
    N is P Ltd's Sales Director. He has been recently promoted from a senior sales position with P Ltd. He has been forced to spend the first six months as Sales Director on dealing with an administrative mess left behind by the previous sales director.
    You are a Senior Management Accountant at P Ltd. You have worked with N for many years.
    N has worked hard and has made many changes that have brought significant benefit to the business.
    N has asked you to postpone the recording of some purchase invoices so that he will meet his quarterly targets on profit margin.
    What should you do?