Critical Thinking Questions Case 1 in Your New Role as a DBA

question 68

Multiple Choice

Critical Thinking Questions Case 1 In your new role as a DBA, you have inherited a database that has a lot of problems. Your first task, you decide, is to identify the qualities of the information in your database, or, in some unfortunate cases, the absence of these qualities. Once you have worked with the data entry team to make sure that they are getting the monthly sales data into the database in a timely fashion, your next challenge is to change the method of disseminating this information from a printed report that is snail-mailed to all sales managers across the country, to an online dissemination strategy that e-mails the reports to the managers. What kind of information is at issue in this instance?

• A) cost-effective information
• B) useful information
• C) organized information
• D) verifiable information

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Definitions:

Multiple Production Department Factory Overhead Rate

Different rates used for allocating factory overhead costs to products based on the department in which those costs are incurred.

Product A

Not a real key term.

Indirect Labor

Wages paid to employees who are not directly involved in producing goods or providing services, such as maintenance and supervisory staff.

Activity Pools

In cost accounting, groups of tasks that have a similar cost driver in activity-based costing, helping allocate overhead costs more accurately.