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Semester One Examinations, 2022

BISM2206 Accounting Information and Software Applications

Section A (20 Marks)

Question 1 (20 marks/15 minutes)

Good Factoring is reliant on loose coupling between subsystems and tight internal cohesion within a subsystem.

First, briefly describe what loose coupling between subsystems refers to. (1 mark each concept up to a maximum of 5 marks)

Second, briefly describe what tight internal cohesion within a subsystem refers to. (1 mark each concept up to a maximum of 5 marks)

Third, briefly provide the reasons why the notions of loose coupling and internal cohesion are useful to us. (1 mark each concept up to a maximum of 10 marks)

 

Section B (30 marks)

Section B, Question 1 20 marks/20 minutes)

The following is an article from Sydney Morning Herald in 2019. Please read the article and then answer the four (4) questions relating to the fraud affecting National Australia Bank.


NSW Police arrest company director in

NAB fraud scandal investigation

Lucy Cormack,Nick McKenzieandRichard Baker

Updated March 1, 2019 — 2.18pm first published at 10.01am


The director of a company at the centre of an alleged $40 million corporate fraud scandal   involving National Australia Bank has been arrested and charged with more than 50 bribery and corruption offences.

Helen Rosamond, 43, is the owner and director of Human Group, an events and human resources company that has held lucrative contracts with NAB going back 12 years and worth almost $120 million.

Police will allege Ms Rosamond paid multiple extravagant bribes between 2013 and 2017 to an executive at the bank in order for the executive to approve bloated invoices.

Such bribes allegedly included a four-night trip for 13 people from Melbourne to Sydney costing more than $76,000, a one-month trip to the US for eight people which cost          $485,000, multiple trips to the Emirates resort at Wolgan Valley, prepaid credit cards,    private helicopter transfers and a $46,000 boat.


On Friday morning, Ms Rosamond was arrested by members of Strike Force Napthali at her harbourside home and taken to Kings Cross police station.

Shortly after 4pm she appeared via audio-visual link at Central Local Court, where she was granted bail by Magistrate, subject to a number of strict conditions, including surrendering her passport, reporting to police daily and posting a $200,000 surety.

He said the financial gains allegedly made by Ms Rosamond were "mostly to facilitate a lifestyle" for herself and her family, with "boats, holidays," and "houses."

She is the first to be charged after an extensive 12-month investigation by the state's             financial crimes squad into an alleged kickbacks scandal that ran out of the office of recently departed NAB chief executive Andrew Thorburn.


The massive scale of the alleged fraud was described on Friday by acting Assistant Commissioner Stuart Smith as "something we haven't seen before".

Ms Rosamond has been charged with 56 counts of bribing an agent and two counts of      obtaining benefit by deception, related to the allegedly corrupt provision of over-inflated invoices for services to NAB between 2013 and 2017.

At the centre of the police investigation is the relationship between Ms Rosamond and Mr Thorburn's former chief of staff, Rosemary Rogers. The investigation was triggered by a     whistle-blower referral within NAB last year.

Information gleaned from the report was referred to the financial crimes squad in February last year, prompting the formation of Strike Force Napthali.

Within two months, Napthali investigators descended on the North Sydney office of Human Group, as well as other properties in Milsons Point and Potts Point. Police executed 20         search warrants at multiple properties, seizing "a warehouse" worth of documents and        electronic storage devices.

Forensic accountants from police and NAB have spent thousands of hours over 12 months examining the document haul since.

The alleged scam, which was mentioned at the banking royal commission, involved Human Group inflating invoices for its services to NAB to cover large commissions and to fund        extravagant overseas holidays taken by Ms Rogers and her family.

Acting Assistant Commissioner Smith said those involved with the alleged fraud had received substantial benefit.

"The commissions were paid to ensure certain contracts would remain viable with [NAB]," he said, adding that the financial institution was also "a victim" and had been working with police.

"Obviously that was to secure those contracts and then those contracts were overpaid what would be an expected amount," acting Assistant Commissioner Smith said.

Ms Rogers has not been arrested or charged. She held the position of chief-of-staff for nine years, including under former chief executive Cameron Clyne, before her resignation in

December 2017.

Last month, Supreme Courts in NSW and Victoria slapped freezing orders over Ms Rogers' $6.2 million property portfolio, three of her bank accounts and a $1 million NAB bank         cheque following a proceeds of crime application by the NSW Crime Commission last year.


Questions:

(a)        From the information provided in the article, explain how the fraud actually

worked. (4 marks)

(b)         Discuss what the fundamental control problem was with National Australia

Bank. (6 marks)

(c)         Suggest and describe two controls that National Australia Bank could use to uncover and avoid dealing with fraudulent suppliers in future. (6 marks)

(d)         For  each  suggested  control  in  (c)  above,  indicate whether  it  is  preventive, detective, and/or corrective in nature.                                       (4 marks)

Answer Section B, Question 1(a), Question 1(b), Question 1(c), and Question 1(d) here:

Section B, Question 2 (10 marks/10 minutes)

Based on the following small extract from Polis Grocers Inc., fill in the missing activities in  the table of Entities and Activities presented below. (2 marks per correct activity labelled)

 

Section C (70 marks)

Question 1       (12 marks/15 minutes)

With regard to the Inventory process control goals of effectiveness of operationsefficiency of operations, and resource security,

(a)   Give two (2) example controls for each of the three process control goals.

(6 marks)

(b)   For each of the three process control goals, select one example control from your

answer to (a).  Explain how the control supports the production planning process, and the risks to the production process if such a control was not in place.

(6 marks  2 marks for each explanation of how the production planning  process is supported and the risks to the production process if the control was not in place)

Answer Section C, Question 1(a) and Question 1(b) here:

Question 2       (24 marks/20 minutes)

Thinking about your MYOB CSF assignment and the MYOB evaluation grids, evaluate MYOB’s Sales/Order Entry module in terms of each aspect listed in the table below. In your  response,  include  an  appropriate  example  to  support  your  evaluation.  This

question continues, over.

(8 marks for each aspect, i.e., 1 mark per appropriate evaluation point up to 5 marks for each aspect, and 3 marks for each relevant example supporting the evaluation points)

 

Question 3       (10 marks/10 minutes)

Match the two lists, below, by placing the capital letter from List 1 in each of the cells preceding the five descriptions in List 2 to which they best relate.

One description in List 2 can be answered with 2 matches from List 1. Therefore, you should have 2 letters left over from List 1.

List 1: Concepts

A.   Application (i.e., automated) control.

B.   Corrective control.

C.   Control environment.

D.   Input validity.

E.   Input completeness.

F.    Input accuracy

G.   Update completeness.

H.   Efficient use of resources.

 

List 1: Capital letter

List 2: Definitions/Descriptions

 

1.   Insurance policy reimburses a company for losses due to a fire in a warehouse.

 

2.   Shipping notices have a serial number that is tracked to ensure that they are all input.

 

3.   Computer reviews each input to ensure that all the required data are included.

 

4.   Inventory movements are tracked with a scanner to reduce manual counting.

 

5.   Purchase orders are signed to approve the purchase.

(10 marks total, i.e., 2 marks per correct match)

Question 4      (24 marks/25 minutes)

The result of good modelling of the real-world usually leads to good information systems  being built. Good models help us to understand and predict how certain business systems work and to frame questions about the real-world system allowing us to determine how   well it is meeting our goals.

Businesses are usually primarily involved in the processing of transactions because the         business is trying to accomplish some goal. One approach is to think about events following this three-step approach:

a.           Identify the goals that a business must accomplish.

b.           Identify the processes that must be undertaken to accomplish each goal.

c.           Within each process, identify the events of interest.

Once the events of interest are identified, we can then recognize the sorts of data we need to record about the event.

By asking the following sorts of questions we can characterise events:

            What happened?

            When did the event happen?

•            What agents were involved?

            What resources (things) were involved?

            Where did the event occur?

Briefly explain why it is important to know the above questions and give one relevant         example pertinent to each of the four questions in the table below.  For example, knowing what agents were involved allows us to determine whether the agents were internal or     external, e.g., salespersons or customers. We can use that information to understand who our best salespersons are and to pay commissions to those salespersons accordingly. (24    marks max - up to 4 marks for each explanation and up to 2 marks for each pertinent          example)

Please answer on the following page.


Questions

Why is the question important and one pertinent example?

What happened?

 

When

 

What resources (things) were involved?

 

Where