Please Consider These Independent Cases as You Respond to the Question

question 60

Multiple Choice

Please consider these independent cases as you respond to the question: • Austin is the managing partner of a small CPA firm.In an effort to standardize certain internal business processes, Austin formed a team that developed a set of guidelines for tasks such as expense reimbursements and information technology purchases.After developing the guidelines, the team devised ways to determine if the processes are performing as expected.• Julie is the chief financial officer of PSC Corporation.She recently worked with a team to develop a broad set of principles that should characterize PSC's business processes.The team has applied those principles to some tasks in the accounting department; their next task is to teach other PSC employees about the principles.• Rob is an accountant at CTR Company.The owners of CTR, Lynn and Mark, don't know much about accounting, so Rob completes accounting tasks in whatever way seems best to him.For Julie to move her company's business processes forward one level in the capability maturity model, she should:

• A)Make sure all PSC employees can list the principles her team developed.
• B)Develop a written procedures manual that will help manage the processes.
• C)Set benchmarks for each business process related to cost and time.
• D)None of these; PSC's business processes are already at the highest level of the capability maturity model.

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Definitions:

Procedurally Structured Code

Code organized around the concept of procedure calls, where the flow of the program is structured through functions or procedures.

Reuse Code

The practice of using existing software components or code snippets in new or different projects to save time and effort.

Software Productivity

A measure of the efficiency of a software development process, often evaluated by the quantity and quality of software produced within a given timeframe.