Question: PLEASE HELP!! I'll give review 8) Which technique is often inexpensive, yet helps identify long-term occupational fraud that other techniques would miss? A. Budget reviews.

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8) Which technique is often inexpensive, yet helps identify long-term occupational fraud that other techniques would miss?

A. Budget reviews.

B. Employee surveys.

C. Mandatory vacations and duty rotation.

D. Review of select documents.

9) Which control, though often unsuccessful, occasionally yields critical information, and is especially useful because of its cost-effectiveness?

A. Document reconciliations.

B. Random selections of employees for detailed performance review.

C. External audits.

D. Employee tip lines.

10) Which of the following best describes the most glaring weakness of fraud prevention and detection efforts?

A. Incompetent employees.

B. Collusion.

C. Underpaid staff.

D. Poor external audit expertise.

11) To prevent fraud, which is likely the best and most sustainable overall strategy?

A. fairly compensate employees, regularly evaluate them, and focus on reasonable, attainable metrics that are balanced.

B. have a positive working environment, focus on one or two key metrics, and have employee evaluations which reflect that focus.

C. hire only ethical employees, include up front training on the fraud triangle, and establish an employee tip line.

D. offer bonus incentive programs for anonymously exposing fraud and waste in other employees; focus on results rather than processes; ensure constant oversight of key metrics.

12) Your organization has a long history as a top-level research program in health sciences. Research is of the organization's two main objectives, and is of equal importance with its public education program. After the recent departure of a top researcher, leadership grew concerned that research output would diminish. Accordingly, management has introduced a new metric as part of a control strategy associated with research output. Other metrics and evaluation criteria still remain in place. The new metric is designed to ensure that the number of research studies completed remains high. The metric is tied to incentive compensation, meaning more studies completed will result in higher compensation. Which of the following potential outcomes is the MOST critical and foreseeable concern, given the context of the incentive?

A. The number of studies completed will not respond to the incentive.

B. The quality of completed studies will diminish.

C. Researchers will depart, given the increased management focus on producing research.

D. Researchers will begin to do more studies at the expense of other duties.

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