Company X Has Entrusted the Processing of Their Payroll Data

question 95

Multiple Choice

Company X has entrusted the processing of their payroll data to Provider Y. Provider Y stores this encrypted data on its server. The IT department of Provider Y finds out that someone managed to hack into the system and take a copy of the data from its server. In this scenario, whom does Provider Y have the obligation to notify?

• A) The public
• B) Company X
• C) Law enforcement
• D) The supervisory authority

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Definitions:

Cost of Goods Sold

Costs directly related to making the goods that a company markets.

Overapplied Overhead

Occurs when the allocated overhead costs exceed the actual overhead costs incurred.

Net Operating Income

Represents the profit earned from a company's core business operations, excluding expenses and revenues from non-operating activities.

Job-Order Costing

A cost accounting system that assigns manufacturing costs to an individual product or batch of products, typically used when the products being produced are sufficiently different from each other.