You are the head of the IT department at Panther Designs,Inc.A systems review reveals that your firm has poor control procedures for preventing inadvertent programming errors.However,you are not concerned because you feel Panther Designs has strong compensating controls.What control likely exists to give you this confidence?
A)The internal audit department processes test data at Panther Designs.
B)Panther Designs pays its employees well,decreasing the likelihood of errors.
C)Panther Designs only hires competent programmers,decreasing the likelihood of errors.
D)All of Panther Design's IT applications are less than 2 years old.

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The internal audit department processing test data at Panther Designs is a compensating control that can help identify and correct inadvertent programming errors, thus providing confidence despite poor control procedures for preventing such errors initially.

You Are the Head of the IT Department at Panther