Question 10
After a documented finance process change, the original condition was: General journals from an automated integration reuse voucher numbers and validation detects duplicates. What should validation demonstrate?
Explanation
Correct Answer
New journal lines receive valid unique vouchers and can post without sequence conflicts. This directly tests the intended correction: Review the journal name's voucher number sequence and the integration's numbering behavior. The underlying failure or control mechanism is: Journal names and number sequences determine voucher identification across imported lines.
Incorrect Answers
Journal validation shows balanced accounting values and posting succeeds. That would verify a different case: An imported general journal has debits and credits in different currencies with no correct accounting-currency balancing. It does not verify the required corrective action: Review the journal name's voucher number sequence and the integration's numbering behavior.
The original and reversal remain audit-linked and the net accounting effect equals the correction. That would verify a different case: A posted accrual has the signs reversed, and the team proposes editing the posted voucher directly. It does not verify the required corrective action: Review the journal name's voucher number sequence and the integration's numbering behavior.
Generated entries appear for intended periods without duplicated accrual vouchers. That would verify a different case: Finance pays the same lease accrual every month but staff recreate its general journal manually and miss a month. It does not verify the required corrective action: Review the journal name's voucher number sequence and the integration's numbering behavior.