A Sales Clerk at an Electronics Store Scanned the Bar

question 47

Multiple Choice

A sales clerk at an electronics store scanned the bar code for a low cost set of headphones and then substituted a high cost set of headphones for his friend,who paid the lower price.Which of the following controls would best help to prevent this sort of fraud?

• A) Use of RFID tags
• B) Physical inventory count
• C) Segregation of duties
• D) Limited physical access to bar codes

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