Re: bar coding and portable devices

["Bill" <billzbubb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chick Doe wrote:
> so my question is: how do companies audit the various transactions
> that are made using portable devices? how do you know that the proper
> transactions are being made? how do you prove it to the accounting
> staff and their legions of auditors that want to see source documents
> and transaction audit trails?

I think it's up to the company.  We have a paper audit trail here, but
that's only because we can't guarantee that every transaction entered via
the barcode system will make it up and into BPCS.  It would be a great
timesaver if we could gurantee it.

When it comes to auditing, we have a number of reports that report
variances against standards - that's where data entry discrepancies are
exposed.

Bill