You are an accountant for a law firm with 45 employees in Ed…
You are an accountant for a law firm with 45 employees in Edmonton. In addition to accounting, you oversee an IT Technician who maintains the wireless local area network (LAN). The managing partner asks you the following questions in order to understand the usefulness of General and Application IT Controls: 1. If payroll staff enter employee timesheets in batches, explain how record count and batch total of employee hours worked would help detect input errors. (2 marks) 2. If each employee entered his/her own time sheet online, explain two input validation checks that would help ensure that the “hours worked” field is accurately and/or completely entered. (2 marks) 3. Explain two General IT controls that should be incorporated into the system and how they work. (4 marks)
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Rob and Heidi (married filing joint) expect to pay $20,000 in tithing and $8,000 in state and local taxes each year for the next few years. If they have a 24% marginal tax rate, calculate how much they would save over the next two years if they use “bunching” (assume a standard deduction in 2019 of $24,400).
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Rob and Heidi have 6 children with the following ages: Lyndsey (23, unmarried full-time student), Dallin (20, missionary), Jayden (17), Ethan (16), Camden (13), and Izzy (10). What is the total sum of all the child and family credits that Rob and Heidi can claim in 2019?
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