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Chapter 14 Quiz
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Question 2
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Question 3
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Question 4
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What is an audit?
Hint:
Look at Bligh's story.
Feedback for all
incorrect answers:
LO: Define the term audit and explain various applications of audit (pp.
521-523)
Answer
Graded
As
An independent or objective assessment of something.
Correct
A systematic examination of any activity or activities undertaken by
government to make a determination about their effects.
Incorrect
A set of techniques designed to answer the question of what the
probable effects of a policy will be before they actually occur.
Incorrect
An examination of some aspects of a program's operation during its
implementation.
Incorrect
An assessment of the impacts and outcomes of a program before it is
implemented.
Incorrect
Feedback
When did the modern audits develop to tackle the complex financial management of public
sector activities?
Hint:
Global movement of money.
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incorrect answers:
LO: Understand the history of auditing and the mission of the
Government Accountability Office (pp. 523-525)
Answer
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Twentieth century
Incorrect
Nineteenth century
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Eighteenth century
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Seventeenth century
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Sixteenth century
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What is the oldest and traditional form of auditing activity?
Hint:
A tool for preventing corruption.
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incorrect answers:
LO: Evaluate the different types of audit and explain their relationships
to efficiency and effectiveness (pp. 526-529)
Answer
Graded As
Compliance audit
Correct
Performance audit
Incorrect
Internal audit
Incorrect
Efficient audit
Incorrect
Effective audit
Incorrect
Feedback
What is program evaluation?
Hint:
Remember Bligh's story.
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incorrect answers:
LO: Analyze the distinction between program evaluation and policy
analysis, and why governmental organizations engage in such activities
(pp. 530-533)
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Question 6
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Question 7
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Answer
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As
A set of techniques that seeks to answer the question of what the
probable effects of a policy will be before they actually occur.
Incorrect
A systematic examination of any activity or group of activities
undertaken by government to make a determination about their shortand long-term effects.
Correct
An independent or objective assessment of something.
Incorrect
An objective assessment of something.
Incorrect
An external objective assessment of something.
Incorrect
Feedback
What type of evaluation may examine some aspects of a program's operations while they
are in place and may incorporate its result into the organization's management processes?
Hint:
How lawyers may view evaluation issues.
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incorrect answers:
LO: Describe the different types of program evaluation and standards
against which a program can be evaluated (pp. 533-537)
Answer
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Ex ante factor evaluation
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Ex post facto evaluation
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Efficient evaluation
Incorrect
Effectiveness evaluation
Incorrect
Process evaluation
Correct
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An audit undertaken by a single organization that combines elements of financial audit, the
efficiency audit, and the management audit is usually referred to as what?
Hint:
The commonality of audit processes.
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incorrect answers:
LO: Define the term audit and explain various applications of audit (pp.
521-523)
Answer
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Performance audit
Incorrect
Compliance audit
Incorrect
Comprehensive audit
Correct
Internal audit
Incorrect
External audit
Incorrect
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The passage of the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 was motivated by what?
Hint:
Congressional authority over national administration.
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LO: Understand the history of auditing and the mission of the
Government Accountability Office (pp. 523-525)
Answer
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To give Congress greater authority.
Incorrect
To give the judiciary a significant administrative authority.
Incorrect
To give the bureaucracy a significant administrative authority.
Incorrect
To give the taxpayers a significant oversight authority.
Incorrect
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To give the president a significant administrative authority.
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Question 9
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Question 10
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Question 11
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What are the two steps in the performance audit chain?
Hint:
Look at the Government Accountability Office's advocacy for expanding
its mission.
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LO: Evaluate the different types of audit and explain their relationships
to efficiency and effectiveness (pp. 526-529)
Answer
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Internal and external audits
Incorrect
Comprehensive and management audits
Incorrect
Executive and legislative audits
Incorrect
Judicial and administrative audits
Incorrect
Efficiency and effectiveness audits
Correct
Feedback
A set of techniques that seeks to answer the question of what the probable effects of a
policy will be before they actually occur is called what?
Hint:
Remember the Bligh's story.
Feedback for all
incorrect answers:
LO: Analyze the distinction between program evaluation and policy
analysis, and why governmental organizations engage in such activities
(pp. 530-533)
Answer
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Program evaluation
Incorrect
Performance analysis
Incorrect
Comprehensive analysis
Incorrect
Process analysis
Incorrect
Policy analysis
Correct
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Which of the following are the three standards against which a program can be evaluated?
Hint:
Revisit the GAO's audit of the U.S. Postal Service.
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incorrect answers:
LO: Describe the different types of program evaluation and standards
against which a program can be evaluated (pp. 533-537)
Answer
Graded As
Compliance, efficiency, and effectiveness/relevance
Correct
Equity, economy, and accountability
Incorrect
Legal, administrative, and political rules
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Conservative, liberal, and libertarian principles
Incorrect
Compliance, performance, and internal principles
Incorrect
Feedback
In terms of comparison, financial statements are audited to determine when they are in
accord with what?
Hint:
The essence of auditing
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incorrect answers:
LO: Define the term audit and explain various applications of audit (pp.
521-523)
Answer
Graded As
Generally accepted administrative standards.
Incorrect
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Question 12
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Question 13
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Question 14
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Question 15
Generally accepted management standards.
Incorrect
Generally accepted economic standards.
Incorrect
Generally accepted legal standards.
Incorrect
Generally accepted accounting standards.
Correct
What is the mission of the Government Accountability Office?
Hint:
Revisit President Ronald Reagan's popularized phrase, "trust but
verify."
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incorrect answers:
LO: Understand the history of auditing and the mission of the
Government Accountability Office (pp. 523-525)
Answer
Graded
As
Feedback
To verify judicial mandated accounting standards.
Incorrect
To audit federal government expenditures and assist Congress with
legislative oversight responsibilities.
Correct
To determine the constitutionality of government expenditures and
actions.
Incorrect
To provide accountability support for taxpayers.
Incorrect
To assist government in uncovering domestic issues.
Incorrect
What type of audit is conceptually a part of a control system that focuses on the inputs or
resources used in administration, not the outputs or results?
Hint:
Revisit the discussion on "fiddling while Rome burned."
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incorrect answers:
LO: Evaluate the different types of audit and explain their relationships
to efficiency and effectiveness (pp. 526-529)
Answer
Graded As
Compliance audit
Correct
Performance audit
Incorrect
Internal audit
Incorrect
External audit
Incorrect
Comprehensive audit
Incorrect
Feedback
The benchmarking national agency for many state governments' legislative evaluation
commissions or evaluation staffs is known as what?
Hint:
Look at the discussion on sunset law.
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incorrect answers:
LO: Analyze the distinction between program evaluation and policy
analysis, and why governmental organizations engage in such activities
(pp. 530-533)
Answer
Graded As
Common Cause
Incorrect
Legislative Commission on Expenditure Review
Incorrect
General Service Administration
Incorrect
Congressional Budget Office
Incorrect
Government Accountability Office
Correct
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Which of the following evaluation questions is not among the subdivision of the "general
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question" concerning effectiveness?
Hint:
Look at the "pressure for increased productivity" at the U.S. Postal
Service.
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Question 17
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Question 18
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LO: Describe the different types of program evaluation and standards
against which a program can be evaluated (pp. 533-537)
Answer
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As
Feedback
Are the various purposes involved in a program incompatible?
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Are the various purposes involved in a program compatible?
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How much of reduction has there been in the problem?
Incorrect
Could the commitment of additional resources to the program have
brought about significantly greater advances toward the objectives?
Incorrect
What would have happened if the program had not existed?
Incorrect
What is the name of an entity that may seek to provide management with objective advice
quickly so that problems can be identified and rectified before they grow worse?
Hint:
Look at the discussion on the audit processes.
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incorrect answers:
LO: Define the term audit and explain various applications of audit (pp.
521-523)
Answer
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Internal audit group
Correct
External audit group
Incorrect
Government employee union group
Incorrect
Common Cause group
Incorrect
Responsible government group
Incorrect
Feedback
What is the central concern of the Government Accountability Office despite its wide scope
of policy and performance investigations?
Hint:
Inadequate controls over the Department of Defense.
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incorrect answers:
LO: Understand the history of auditing and the mission of the
Government Accountability Office (pp. 523-525)
Answer
Graded As
Financial management
Correct
Congressional mandates
Incorrect
Judicial mandates
Incorrect
Presidential mandates
Incorrect
Demands from citizens for responsible government.
Incorrect
Feedback
In terms of audit, the process of comparing the activities of an organization with the
objectives that have been assigned to it is known as what?
Hint:
Revisit the discussion on GAO's enabling legislation.
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incorrect answers:
LO: Evaluate the different types of audit and explain their relationships
to efficiency and effectiveness (pp. 526-529)
Answer
Graded As
Effectiveness audit
Incorrect
Efficiency audit
Correct
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Question 19
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Question 20
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Question 21
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Internal audit
Incorrect
External audit
Incorrect
Compliance audit
Incorrect
According to Wildavsky, what is the problem with evaluation?
Hint:
Look at the 1972 article by Aaron Wildavsky in Public Administration
Review.
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incorrect answers:
LO: Analyze the distinction between program evaluation and policy
analysis, and why governmental organizations engage in such activities
(pp. 530-533)
Answer
Graded
As
No matter how compelling for change, change is what evaluation
emphasized most and organizations abhorred most.
Correct
No matter how compelling for change, change is what evaluation
emphasized most and organizations appreciated most.
Incorrect
Change is usually what evaluation recommends most and used by
organizations to seek for funds.
Incorrect
Change is never what external evaluation recommends, but
organizations usually resist implementing new ideas.
Incorrect
Policymakers at all levels of government do not allow public
administrators to implement any evaluation recommendations.
Incorrect
Feedback
Although the "thirst" for evaluation may be induced from various motives, what is the
noblest motivation?
Hint:
Look at the defensive program evaluation discussion.
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LO: Describe the different types of program evaluation and standards
against which a program can be evaluated (pp. 533-537)
Answer
Graded
As
Congressional oversight demands
Incorrect
Executive administrative demands
Incorrect
The judicial review mandates
Incorrect
Demands from the Common Cause members
Incorrect
The good management practice of assessing progress so that
problem areas can be identified and remedial action taken.
Correct
Feedback
What is the basic task of auditors in virtually all modern organizations?
Hint:
The essence of auditing.
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incorrect answers:
LO: Define the term audit and explain various applications of audit (pp.
521-523)
Answer
Graded As
To certify that the financial accounts of the organization are correct.
Correct
To bring happiness to organizational stakeholders.
Incorrect
To help employees have faith in their organizations.
Incorrect
To bring transparency in management.
Incorrect
To enable organizations to meet regulatory requirements.
Incorrect
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Question 22
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Which federal organization has the national visibility and reputation for institutional integrity
that made it a model for other levels of government?
Hint:
See the discussion on how Stanford University overcharged a federal
agency.
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Question 23
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Question 24
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Question 25
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LO: Understand the history of auditing and the mission of the
Government Accountability Office (pp. 523-525)
Answer
Graded As
Congressional Budget Office
Incorrect
Office of Management and Budget
Incorrect
Department of Homeland Security
Incorrect
Government Accountability Office
Correct
General Services Administration
Incorrect
Feedback
Which of the following audit groups needs to have a reporting line high in the organization,
such as to the chief executive officer, or to an audit committee at the highest level?
Hint:
Revisit the discussion on audit programs.
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incorrect answers:
LO: Evaluate the different types of audit and explain their relationships
to efficiency and effectiveness (pp. 526-529)
Answer
Graded As
Comprehensive audit groups
Incorrect
Compliance audit groups
Incorrect
Internal audit groups
Correct
Efficient audit groups
Incorrect
Effectiveness audit groups
Incorrect
Feedback
The requirement that government agencies and programs have termination dates is known
as what?
Hint:
Look at the lobbying effort by Common Cause.
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incorrect answers:
LO: Analyze the distinction between program evaluation and policy
analysis, and why governmental organizations engage in such activities
(pp. 530-533)
Answer
Graded As
Sunshine law
Incorrect
Sunset law
Correct
Evaluation law
Incorrect
Administrative law
Incorrect
Oversight law
Incorrect
Feedback
What types of evaluations are normally incorporated into the management process?
Hint:
Look at the defensive program evaluation discussion.
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incorrect answers:
LO: Describe the different types of program evaluation and standards
against which a program can be evaluated (pp. 533-537)
Answer
Graded As
Executive branch external evaluations
Incorrect
Congressional mandated evaluations
Incorrect
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Judicial efficiency evaluations
Incorrect
Executive branch compliance evaluations
Incorrect
Executive branch internal evaluations
Correct