Yng Case Study

QUESTION 2

Summary

A headquarter that handles many chain stores are hardly enough to centralize the systems. It was because there are many chain stores around the country. The company may try to open the chain stores at different market. That is Your Neighborhood Grocer’s. They have at least many chain stores that operate in 10 different market. Hence, they needs a system that is reliability and secure from any fraud or mistakes. Any error can reduce their reliability and damage slightly of their profits. Hence, they appointed Larry to implement a system that prove reliability, accountability and control over the accounting transactions and departments in the organizations.

1. The issues that YNG faced right now:-

a) The IT infrastructure has not properly aligned in one direction with the organization.

b) Many applications are old for the organizations.

c) There are too many databases required for various software and hardware.

d) Separate of software and hardware makes it hard to align into one system.

e) Many independent systems that differs from one system to other system.

f) The usage of platforms that is very old.

g) The control systems are difficult to handle in auditing processes

h) The accounting payable, payroll and general ledger systems are very old to be used in the organization.

2. Cite the control objective and how it would remediate the situation.

Larry needs to test the technologies (software and hardware) in the organization. Either it is the software or hardware; he needs to check whether the equipments can work properly. It is because some hardware can work independently. However, it faced problems during the alignment of the