An accounts payable program posted a payable to a vendor not included in the vendor master file. What is a control that would have prevented this error?
A) Validity check.
B) Range check.
C) Reasonableness test.
D) Parity check.

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A validity check is a control that ensures that a transaction is being processed using valid data or values. In this case, if the accounts payable program had a validity check in place, it would have flagged the payable transaction as invalid since the vendor is not included in the vendor master file. As a result, the error would have been caught and prevented. Range checks and parity checks are not relevant to this specific error, and the reasonableness test is not specific enough to detect the error in question.

An Accounts Payable Program Posted a Payable to a Vendor