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Free IIA IIA-ACCA Practice Exam with Questions & Answers | Set: 5

Questions 61

According to IIA guidance, which of the following accurately describes the responsibilities of the chief audit executive with respect to the final audit report?

1. Coordinate post-engagement conferences to discuss the final audit report with management.

2. Include management's responses in the final audit report.

3. Review and approve the final audit report.

4. Determine who will receive the final audit report.

Options:
A.

1 and 2

B.

1 and 4

C.

2 and 3

D.

3 and 4

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Questions 62

During the last year, an organization had an opening inventory of $300,000, purchases of $980,000, sales of $1,850,000, and a gross margin of 40 percent. What is the closing inventory if the periodic inventory system is used?

Options:
A.

$170,000

B.

$280,000

C.

$300,000

D.

$540,000

Questions 63

Which of the following standards would be most useful in evaluating the performance of a customer-service group?

Options:
A.

The average time per customer inquiry should be kept to a minimum.

B.

Customer complaints should be processed promptly.

C.

Employees should maintain a positive attitude when dealing with customers.

D.

All customer inquiries should be answered within seven days of receipt.

Questions 64

An organization has a complex systems infrastructure consisting of multiple internally developed, off the shelf, and purchased but significantly customized applications. Some of these applications share databases or process data that is used by another stand-alone application, and interfaces have been written to move data between these applications as needed through batch processing Which of the following situations presents the greatest risk exposure given this environment?

Options:
A.

Documentation of each system and its interactions, interfaces, and dependencies with other systems and databases is not gathered and maintained.

B.

Batch processing jobs include key financial data that is not posted to the accounting system until the next day. preventing real-time queries.

C.

The job scheduling tool frequently malfunctions, causing scheduled jobs not to run. An error message is sent to IT personnel when a job fails.

D.

The implementation of a major update for a key application is delayed until any potential interdependencies are identified and analyzed.

Questions 65

Which of the following is most important for an internal auditor to check with regard to the database version?

Options:
A.

Verify whether the organization uses the most recent database software version

B.

Verify whether the database software version is supported by the vendor.

C.

Verify whether the database software version has been recently upgraded

D.

Verify whether access to database version information is appropriately restricted

Questions 66

An organization's balance sheet indicates that the total asset amount and the total capital stock amount remained unchanged from one year to the next, and no dividends were declared or paid. However, the organization reported a loss of $200,000. Which of the following describes the most likely year-over-year change to the organization's total liabilities and total stockholder equity?

Options:
A.

The total liabilities and total stockholder equity both increased.

B.

The total liabilities and total stockholder equity both decreased.

C.

The total liabilities decreased, and the total stockholder equity increased.

D.

The total liabilities increased, and the total stockholder equity decreased.

Questions 67

Which of the following is an example of a nonfinancial internal failure quality cost?

Options:
A.

Decreasing gross profit margins over time.

B.

Foregone contribution margin on lost sales.

C.

Defective units shipped to customers.

D.

Excessive time to convert raw materials into finished goods.

Questions 68

What is the most significant potential problem introduced by just-in-time inventory systems?

Options:
A.

They require significant computer resources.

B.

They are susceptible to supply-chain disruptions.

C.

They require complicated materials-supply contracts.

D.

They prevent manufacturers from scaling up or down to meet changing demands.

Questions 69

Which of the following engagement observations would provide the least motivation for management to amend or replace an existing cost accounting system?

Options:
A.

The distorted unit cost of a service is 50 percent lower than the true cost, while the true cost is 50 percent higher than the competition's cost.

B.

The organization is losing $1,000,000 annually because it incorrectly outsourced an operation based on information from its current system.

C.

The cost of rework, hidden by the current system, is 50 percent of the total cost of all services.

D.

50 percent of total organizational cost has been allocated on a volume basis.

Questions 70

Which of the following is the best reason for considering the acquisition of a nondomestic organization?

Options:
A.

Relatively fast market entry.

B.

Improved cash flow of the acquiring organization.

C.

Increased diversity of corporate culture.

D.

Opportunity to influence local government policy.

Questions 71

A large hospital has an existing contract with a vendor in another country to provide software support and maintenance of the hospital's patient records information system. From the hospital management's perspective, which of the following controls would be most effective to address privacy risks related to this outsourcing arrangement^

Options:
A.

Conduct periodic reviews of the privacy policy to ensure that the existing policy meets current legislation requirements in both regions.

B.

Include a "right to audit" clause in the contract and impose detailed security obligations on the outsourced vendor

C.

Implement mandatory privacy training for management to help with identifying privacy risks when outsourcing services

D.

Develop an incident monitoring and response plan to track breaches from internal and external sources

Questions 72

Capacity overbuilding is most likely to occur when management is focused on which of the following?

Options:
A.

Marketing.

B.

Finance.

C.

Production.

D.

Diversification.

Questions 73

Division A produces a product with a variable cost of $5 per unit and an allocated fixed cost of S3 per unit The market price of the product is S15 plus 20 percent selling cost. Division B currently purchases this product from an external supplier but is going to purchase it from division A for S18 Which of the following methods of transfer pricing is being used?

Options:
A.

Market price.

B.

Negotiation-based.

C.

Full absorption cost

D.

Variable cost

Questions 74

Which of the following statements regarding database management systems is not correct?

Options:
A.

Database management systems handle data manipulation inside the tables, rather than it being done by the operating system itself in files.

B.

The database management system acts as a layer between the application software and the operating system.

C.

Applications pass on the instructions for data manipulation which are then executed by the database management system.

D.

The data within the database management system can only be manipulated directly by the database management system administrator.

Questions 75

Which of the following is a key responsibility of a database administrator?

Options:
A.

Troubleshoot end user problems

B.

Provide production support.

C.

Provide physical security of databases

D.

Maintain database integrity