When taken by a chief audit executive, which of the following actions would be most likely to prevent division management from exaggerating sales reports?
1. Announcing a series of internal audit engagements focusing on compliance with corporate sales-reporting policies.
2. Asking the president and the board to issue a statement of corporate policy stressing the importance of accurate management
reporting and the negative consequences of intentional misreporting.
3. Setting up a hotline for employees to report fraudulent behavior anonymously,
4. Assisting the controller in developing and monitoring a series of business process indicators, which are historically correlated with, but independent of sales.
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