Kay Was Frustrated

question 16

Essay

Kay was frustrated. She was auditing a new client for the first time, but the client's accounting information system was in complete disarray. The client, a multi-national corporation, had boxes and filing cabinets full of paper forms in at least three languages. She had been working very long days with her other clients, too. She needed to come up with a plan for making sense of the documents before she could proceed with any of the audit tasks.
-Assume Kay has the background information and skills she needs to solve the problem. Use the first three levels of Steps for Better Thinking to advise Kay on how to proceed.

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Definitions:

Ethical Issue

A situation or problem that requires an individual or organization to choose between alternatives that must be evaluated as right (ethical) or wrong (unethical).

Research Process

A systematic series of actions or steps undertaken to obtain new knowledge or to verify existing knowledge, typically involving hypothesis formulation, data collection, and analysis.

Research Findings

Research findings refer to the outcomes or conclusions drawn from scientific studies based on data collection and analysis.

Linear Association

A relationship between two variables that can be represented with a straight line on a graph.