After considering the scenario, completing the assigned readings and practice Learning Activities, paying particular attention to the section on authority, you compose an interoffice memo, at least one full double spaced page in length, from you to the company CEO, who is also your co-executive in the business. The purpose of the memo is to describe the impact of creating a new management position. In typing your memo from you to the CEO, be sure to respond to the following for items:How would creating a new coordinating management position between the executive level managers (CEO and CIO) and the location managers help the business to grow?Is promoting an existing manager the best option to fill this position? If not, what is an alternative source to fill the position?Who within the company should make these decisions?List the levels of authority (management) that you would have if the new position is created.You are Chief Information Officer (CIO) of a business and authoritatively in the role of co-executive level manager with the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The business currently has eight locations. Currently, the company’s vertical organizational structure is comprised of one accountant and eight location managers who report to you and the CEO. Within each location, reporting to each location manager is a Team Supervisor. Reporting to each Team Supervisor are four Customer Associates.The strategic goal for the business is expansion into a new geographic region and an increase in the number of products or services offered to clients/customers. You and the CEO have discussed two possible avenues to grow and expand this business. One possible strategy would be to franchise locations. Another strategy would be to secure venture capital to finance an internal expansion by opening more company-owned shops. Your business partner feels that s/he just does not have time to further investigate these options because s/he is spending an increasing amount of time assisting the location managers. You have noticed that two of the location managers have exhibited a lot of skill in the management of their locations and perhaps a new position could be added to coordinate with the location managers. This would free both you and the CEO to work on the larger strategic issues.After reading the scenario above, the assigned readings in the textbook and completing the practice Learning Activities, paying particular attention to the section on authority, compose an interoffice memo from you to the CEO. The purpose of the memo is to describe the impact of creating this new position. In typing your memo to the CEO, be sure to respond to the following:How would creating a new coordinating management position between the executive level managers (CEO and CIO) and the location managers help the business to grow?Is promoting an existing manager the best option to fill this position? If not, what is an alternative source to fill the position?Who within the company should make these decisions?List the levels of authority (management) that the company would have if the new position is created.Current Organizational Chart Submission Instructions:Draft your Assignment paper of at least one full double-spaced page in length, using size 12-point size font in MS Word format. Be sure your paper is well written in paragraph form, with correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Name your file according to the Kaplan file-naming convention. Submit your Assignment to the correct unit Dropbox for grading before the close of the unit as an attachment.This Assignment addresses the following unit outcomes:Identify characteristics of vertical and horizontal organizational structures.Distinguish between levels of authority in an organization.Discuss delegation.

Mark Company's audit team is evaluating the controls that Mark has implemented over the automated processing of payroll transactions. During the understanding and assessment stages of the audit, the following processing and output controls have been identified as being important in this processing:To detect unauthorized access to payroll programs and processing, a system log is generated and reviewed on a weekly basis. This log identifies the programs that have been accessed during the past week, the individual(s) who have accessed those programs, and the time(s) during which the programs have been accessed. This log is reviewed, and any unexpected or unauthorized access is investigated immediately.Control totals are determined prior to the input of data and compared to computer-generated totals following transaction processing.Any gross pay calculations in excess of $25,000 per month are identified and written to a rejected transaction file for separate investigation because Mark's highest paid employee whose salary is processed through the system earns $300,000 per year.The system generates a report of any errors or unusual situations identified during transaction processing. This report is reviewed, and any items are resolved in a timely manner, and the resolution is documented by notations made on the report.Any changes to employee master file information since the last payroll period are evaluated to ensure that they have been properly authorized by the appropriate personnel.The output is reviewed for reasonableness prior to distribution to users.Required:Consider the four methods of testing the operating effectiveness of controls (inquiry, observation, document examination, and re-performance). For each of the preceding controls, provide an example of how Mark's audit team might choose to test the operating effectiveness of the control using the four methods of test of controls (e.g., how would the audit team use inquiry, observation, document examination, and re-performance to test control #1, the generation and review of the system log?). [Note: Not all types of tests of controls will be appropriate for testing all the controls.]Imagine that you will be presenting to your audit partner on how you will conduct the audit of this section of controls. Prepare the following deliverables:a PowerPoint presentation summarizing your testing methods for each of the controls listed above and high-level advantages or limitations to such tests for that particular control, anda Word document with your talking points to support the PowerPoint slides.Your combined documents should be at least 4 pages in length, but no more than 6 pages in length, not including the title page and reference page. Outside academic resources not required, but they would likely assist with your analysis. If they are used, citations must be provided.