As the CFO of the organization, you are currently working at, you have been charged with creating new policies and procedures with the IT department. As the CFO you currently oversee payroll, cash collections (revenue), and cash disbursements (expenses). What are some detection controls that you could put in place for those modules within a system?

As the CFO of the organization, you are currently working at, you have been charged with creating new policies and procedures with the IT department. As the CFO you currently oversee payroll, cash collections (revenue), and cash disbursements (expenses). What are some detection controls that you could put in place for those modules within a system?

Accounting Information Systems

10th Edition

ISBN:9781337619202

Author:Hall, James A.

Publisher:Hall, James A.

Chapter10: The Rea Approach To Database Modeling

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