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Accounting Information Systems
Chapter 8 (Test #3)
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Accounting
Undergraduate 3
05/08/2010

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Define Estimate risk:
Definition
Probability of a threat occurrence
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Estimate exposure:
Definition
Potential dollar loss from the risk
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How to calculate expected loss:
Definition
Risk x Exposure.
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Define Information and Communication:
Definition
Methods and records used to record, process, and summarize a company's transactions
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Information and communication are:
Definition
Document accounting procedures in accounting procedure manuals to promote uniformity, and then also communicate the roles of employees in the company.
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Define monitoring performance:
Definition
assessing the quality of internal controls, and taking corrective measures.
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What are key methods of monitoring performance?
Definition
Effective supervision, responsibility reporting, internal and external audits.
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What does the 2004 COSO focus on?
Definition
Enterprise Risk Management
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What are all the parts of the 2004 COSO?
Definition
All the 5 1994 COSO and Objective setting, Event Identification, Risk response
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second part of the 2004 COSO is?

And what does it do.
Definition
Event Identification

Deals with uncertainties, some things are beyond the control of management.

External Factors: economic business, environment, political social.

Internal Factors: Management choices, like infrastructure, personnel, process, and technology
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3rd 2004 COSO and explain it.
Definition
Risk response: risk avoidance, reduction of risk. Management identifies external risks and does there part to try and reduce the internal and external factors associated.
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What are the three control procedures?
Definition
Preventive controls, detective controls, corrective controls
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Define preventive controls:
Definition
Prevent errors and problems before they happen.

Through: Authentication/Authorization controls (passwords), Employee training, Physical address controls (locks)
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Detective controls:
Definition
Needed to discover errors and problems as soon as they arise
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Define corrective controls:
Definition
Remedy the problems discovered through detective controls.
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