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Smith, a certified public accounting firm, was engaged to audit the financial statements of the Sky-is-the-Limit company. The company has its own IT installation. While obtaining an understanding of internal control, Smith found that Sky-is-the-Limit lacked proper segregation of the programming and operating functions. Smith analyzed the internal control surrounding the system to ensure that the corporate governance was being maintained, and he concluded that the existing compensating general control activities provided reasonable assurance that the objectives of internal control were being met.

Prepare a letter addressed to the board of directors that discusses the following:

  • How is the separation of the programming and operating functions accomplished in a properly functioning IT environment?
  • Explain the 3 subdivisions of information systems management, and discuss how they apply to this situation.

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How is the separation of the programming and operating functions accomplished in a properly functioning IT environment?

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Explain the 3 subdivisions of information systems management, and discuss how they apply to this situation.

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David answered on Dec 23 2021
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To,
The Directors
Sky-Is-The-Limit Company
Dear Sir,
I did the financial auditing of your company and was impressed with the corporate governance
maintained by your office in maintaining the accounts. But the one area where I found problem
is the maintenance of same accounts for programming and the operating functions. It will create
problems in finding proper cost of sales as it mixes administrative and service cost.(Clinton,
Merwe, Anton, 2006)
This surprised me because nearly all the companies maintain separate accounts for IT
programming which is helpful for them to track the IT cost as it is just an...
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