Accounting System Controls
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In accounting systems, certain controls are needed to ensure that employees are
doing their jobs properly and ensure that the system runs properly. These checks
are in the best interest of the organization. These controls come in the form of
internal and external controls for the system. The intern ....
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.... is a paper trail for the internal auditor to
follow. All records and transactions are kept on paper and so an auditor has
clear and documented proof of what has transpired. Computerized systems rarely
have a clear paper trail to follow. Since computers do all of the sorting of the
information the company rarely sorts the source documents. Also the computer
does most of the calculations and processing so there would not be the amount of
documentation that there would be in a manual system.
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