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Book's Author: Romney 5 correct: 42%
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Date/Time July 16, 2020 at 6:58 AM (UTC/GMT)
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1. The following scenario will be used for the next four questions:

Mike wants to build a data flow diagram for the payroll processing function of Mike's Mail Order Inc. As
he studies the system he notes that it needs information from a variety of sources. For example, the
payroll system needs employee data from human resources and time card information from each
department. The payroll system also provides information to a variety of sources. For example, it
provides tax reports to government agencies, a payroll report to management, pay information to
employees, and cash disbursement information to the general ledger.

Which symbol would be used to represent the government agencies?

Your Answer: Circle

Correct Answer: Rectangle

Incorrect. A circle represents a transformation process.

2. Which symbol would represent the preparation of employee checks?

Your Answer: Circle

CORRECT. A circle represents a transformation process.

3. How would the payroll report be represented?

Your Answer: Rectangle

Correct Answer: Line

Incorrect. A rectangle represents a data source or destination.

4. Which symbol would represent the actual physical time card?

Your Answer: None of the above

CORRECT. Physical documents are not represented in a data flow diagram. While a curved line may
represent the data on a time card, it does not represent the time card itself. Document flowcharting is
used to show the disposition of documents.

5. Which documentation technique best reveals communication inadequacies in a manual accounting

system?

Your Answer: Documentation flowchart

 CORRECT. The documentation flowchart tracks the physical flow of documents and who receives them.

6. Bill wishes to trace his organization's purchase orders from original creation to final disposition. He
should use a(n):

Your Answer: Internal control flowchart

Correct Answer: None of the above

Incorrect. An internal control flowchart does show the flow of documents, but its focus is not on
following a specific document from cradle to grave.

7. Which of the following describes the characteristics of a systems flowchart?

Your Answer: Many times, the flowchart reflects that output from one process becomes input to
another process.
Correct Answer: All of the above are true.

Incorrect. There is more than one correct answer.

8. One of the main differences between DFDs and flow charts is:

Your Answer: DFD does not show the sequence of processes, where the flowchart does

CORRECT.

9. A rectangle in a flowchart represents:

Your Answer: None of the above

Correct Answer: A computer processing operation

Incorrect. Look over the answers again. One of them is correct.

10. Which of the following is not a guideline in preparing flowcharts?

Your Answer: Use off-page connectors to move from page to page.

Correct Answer: All of the above are guidelines.

Incorrect. This is in guideline 11.

11. Flowcharting symbols can be divided into categories. Which of the following is not one of the
categories?

Your Answer: Storage symbols

Correct Answer: All are proper categories.

Incorrect. This is one of the four categories.

12. In a bookkeeping system of paper journals and ledgers, how would one represent the posting of
transactions in a journal to the ledgers?

Your Answer: A trapezoid

CORRECT. A trapezoid would represent a manual process.

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