Please Consider These Independent Cases as You Respond to the Next

Please consider these independent cases as you respond to the next 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 the above; PSC's business processes are already at the highest level of the capability maturity model.