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Identify one or more control procedures (either general or application controls, or both) that would guard against each of the following errors or problems.
-A bank deposit transaction was accidentally coded with a withdrawal code.
-The kev-entry operator keved in the purchase order number as a nine-diait number instead of an elant-digit number.
The date of a customer payment was keyed 2001 instead of 2015.
-A company employee was issued a check in the amount of S-135.65 because he had not worked a certain week, but most of his pavroll deductions were automatic each week.
-A patient filled out her medical insurance number as 123465 instead of 123456.
-An applicant for the company stock option plan filled out her employee number as 84-7634-21.
-The first two digits are a department code.
-There is no department 84.
-A high school student was able to log onto the telephone companv's computer as soon as he learned what telephone number to call.
-The accounts-receivable department sent 87 checks to the computer center for processing.
-No one realized that one check was dropped along the way and that the computer therefore processed onlv 86 checks.

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