Consider the Following Short Case as You Respond to the Question

question 31

Multiple Choice

Consider the following short case as you respond to the question: Amanda is a partner in a CPA firm; she supervises a staff of ten professionals, some of whom are already licensed CPAs and some of whom are still working toward licensure.She is responsible for audits of independent bookstores in California, Nevada and Arizona.Amanda is concerned that the less experienced professionals she supervises are repeating the mistakes she and the more experienced professionals on her team made when they began auditing.She therefore wants to create a knowledge management system.In assigning personnel to a specific audit team, Amanda normally has one licensed CPA working with a professional who is not yet licensed, thus cutting down on information overload due to:

• A)Organizational design.
• B)Poor use of information technology.
• C)Both organizational design and poor use of information technology.
• D)Neither organizational design nor poor use of information technology.

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Definitions:

Negative

A term often used to describe values below zero, or more broadly, to indicate a refusal, denial, or the absence of a positive quality.

Independent Variable

A variable in an experiment or study that is manipulated or changed to observe its effect on a dependent variable.

Dependent Variable

The variable in an experiment or study that is assumed to depend on or be caused by another variable (the independent variable).