It's a food bag made for foodists, but it is a thing to buy because it's only one huge pocket. It's a little thing as well. It's a food bag made for foodists, but it's only one huge pocket. It's a big pocket as well. It's a big pocket as well. It's a big pocket as well. It's a big pocket as well. It's a big pocket as well. It's a big pocket as well. It's a big pocket as well. It's a big pocket as well. It's a big pocket as well. Good morning. Welcome to the first Unitarian Society of Madison. This is a community where curious and compassionate seekers gather to explore spiritual, ethical, and social issues in an accepting and nurturing environment. Unitarian Universalism calls us to work toward equity, love, and justice in our congregations and in the world. My name is Elizabeth Barrett, and on behalf of the congregation, I would like to extend a friendly welcome, a special welcome to visitors. We are a welcoming congregation. So whoever you are and no matter who you love, we celebrate your presence among us. This would be a great time to silence our cell phones as I would like to invite you to join me in a few moments of silence for contemplation, meditation, prayer, as we settle in and come fully into this time and place together. Please rise and body your spirit for our in-gathering hymn. We will do number 354 together. I invite you to join me in the first and the fourth verse. I invite you to remain standing for our opening words and then join me in a moment in our chalice sliding words. Reverend Gretchen, hail the rights. Whatever you have come in anticipating, whatever you expect or worry for our world, for the future, for our lives, let it go. Make space in your heart to be surprised. Make room in your soul for a new story to take shape. Let astonishment be possible. All this life that remains before us is a miracle. Imagine here the bursting of joy, relentless and resilient, coming in waves, washing over us with music and stories. Let it go. Make space in your heart to be surprised. Make room in your soul for a new story to take shape. Imagine here the bursting of joy, relentless and resilient, coming in waves, washing over us with music and stories. Let it go. Make space in your heart to be surprised. Make room in your soul for a new story to take shape. Make room in your heart to be surprised. Make room in your heart to be surprised. Make room in your heart to be surprised. Come, let us worship together. I invite you to turn towards each other and offer a warm greeting. Aner Parade. Each of our 22 children's religious education classes has created a banner to reflect the things that they talk about, think about, play about, and care about in their classes. As we move back into our new calendar year, it is wonderful to sort of re-energize and celebrate this important part of our community. And so from preschool through ninth grade, our children are busy learning and growing. As each of the classes come before us, they will actually come up onto the chancel and you are very much invited to applaud each class as they move in front of us to celebrate this important work. And so now, may the banner parade begin. Wonderful way to celebrate an important part of our community. Be sure to take a look more closely at the banners after the second service. They will be up around in the commons area, so be sure to take in the artwork. May we rise in all the ways that we do as we join together in number 298. Wake now, my senses. And hear the joy with each pill is of sun. Verse 5, wake now, transformed by- You may be seated. One of the wonderful things about growing up in the South had to do with the gentle enchantment of long, warm summer nights, which seem especially beautiful right now. I particularly recall sometimes when I would be visiting with distant cousins, and we would be up late into those summer nights watching it unfold in front of us from the porch. The lightning bugs dancing around us. And when the stars became fully visible in the sky, inspiring us to imagine, we would talk and dream about some of our favorite stories from the past. We would share with each other some of what was really happening that was important to us in our lives now. And as the night would move on, inevitably, we would find ourselves thinking about, dreaming about the future, what we wished for our lives to be when we were older. What drew us to another level, a place of wonder and possibility. I would not have put it together then, but there is significance in participating in that reverie that has enlivened and enraptured human beings for eons. Such pondrings have reminded us of our possibilities and limitations perhaps as long as we human beings have existed. It has invigorated the imagination, for we have projected onto the stars themselves patterns and images of heroes and legends and how we imagine their relationship to each other in constellations. Furthermore, as we explore together literally in the world, we have used the stars as a guide for the intrepid, the lonely, the lost, and just the adventuresome alike as they sought to orient themselves into the realm of deeper dreamings at night. While it is true, as our explorers discovered, that one could, with some familiarity, use a single star to find broad direction. It was important if you wanted to be more specific and where you were moving to use the relationship between many stars to increase the accuracy of your sense of where you are going. And so I thought that the metaphor of stars was especially apt in thinking with you about the future of this congregation. Over the last months I have been in conversation with many, many of you. We have worshipped together. We have worked together. We have shared some of what is true about the past and the present. And what I want to do is to reflect back to you some of what I have heard in broad themes. The star-like places of illumination and importance and energy that you have most often spoken about and lived in my presence. And I have tried to focus on one or two constellations in particular because it is important for us to choose carefully where we use our energy. But also to make sure that there were more than just a couple that I share with you today because all of these important touchstones help us know who we are. And by their relationship with each other, they often tell us even more about what is possible, more about what is deeply meaningful. An important caveat in what I will share after the musical interlude in a few moments is that one of the things that I assume and I hear most often is that you tell me again and again that one of the primary reasons at the end of the day that you come here is for a sense of community. A sense of community for yourself, for your family, especially for your children often. And that is essential actually in many ways at its core what this gathering is about is community. And so I will assume that the five stars that I share with you in a few minutes are indeed part of what contributes in the fuller sense to what it means to be a community that gathers week after week going into months. It is good to turn to these truths when we need to know deeper wisdom about our lives. So as we get ready for the musical meditation and as I share in a few minutes after that these five stars, let's bring a sense of imagination. Turn one night in the very center of a long and important journey that you have paused to rest. You are blanketed under a vast and awe-inspiring cover of the night sky. And having traveled for some distance you find yourself this night in a place that you have never been mysterious, foreboding in some ways, but also very beautiful. For a fearful moment you wonder, what if I am lost? What if I strayed from the right path many, many miles ago? But then as you look towards the stars some ancient knowledge reminds you that these points of light will help you navigate forward. You are not lost. You are merely finding your way. And as you ponder that path, you hear somewhere deep within you a melody begin to rise. One that connects you with past and present. One that sings with whimsy and joy, with longing, with hope, with dreams. May we now receive the gift of music. So these are the five stars that I have seen and experienced you living most. Star number one, not too surprisingly and appropriately, is music. Over and over again, indeed, when you have talked about what is most meaningful here, so many of you have talked about the power of music. Plato wrote, music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. In many congregations, the music that you experience in worship is a conduit to spiritual connection. So many of you have talked about in the gift of music week after week, you begin to connect with something powerful and transcendent. And in a somewhat related way, music is often in our congregations a place where we may feel that we can move safely into the realm of deep and powerful emotion and find with the help of music that there is a disarming and open quality that we can find in encountering deeper feelings and even through the power of music moving sometimes into a place of healing. The important thing I think about all of these stars is that we push against and underneath them again and again to find the real core of what makes them deeply significant to us. What they might say to us that is even more meaningful than what we first encounter as we think about them. That vision of music within the life of this congregation will help you live most profoundly into your possibilities as Unitarian Universalists. How will music actually be so much more than a place of entertainment as it already has deeply transcended but actually a way of rooting yourself more significantly in your faith? Because music is a profound source of connection, we know that one of the gifts and challenges of music is that it very often comes with significant cultural overtones. And because that is true, often music is a place that reminds us within a congregation of its ability to both build bridges. But if we are not thoughtful as well, it can be a place of division where generations, different ethnicities, different socioeconomic backgrounds, where racial difference will show in the exclusive use of one style of music in a way that feels like it leaves out the depth of others. Yet we know because music touches on powerful emotions, sometimes sharing the space of that musical truth can be difficult for all of us. It asks each of us to think about what it means to be in community and how all of the powerful creative outlets may help us be together in a more meaningful way. R number two, many of you have talked about how essential the ministries of justice and peace are to this place. Mother Teresa wrote, love cannot remain by itself, it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service. Whatever form we are able or disabled, rich or poor, it is not how much we do but how much love we put in the doing, a lifelong sharing of love with others. The second star that you have shared with me again and again comes up very commonly in how you experience that justice and working towards equity and peace are part of the very marrow of the bones of this place. And that deep sense of it being so much a part of who we are asks for at least a couple of careful and thoughtful considerations in the future. How is it that you will create more opportunities for more people to act on their values? Our congregations will always have people that find primary and important identity in their activism. And this is a wonderful place for them to share that passion and to inspire us. But another important ongoing ministry in the congregation is how we facilitate people of all ages and many backgrounds who in their own way care deeply about what is happening in the world but feel disempowered and overwhelmed in finding a meaningful and personal way to engage that concern. How will we work more consistently together to open the doorway for more of us to find ways to act on our principles and to feel like that action brings a deeper wholeness to us all? Another important component of the justice and social ministries have to do with a sense of how it is shared. What is the role of your ministers and staff in the work of organizing and leading justice? And how much of it needs to be shared by the larger congregation? It does require a careful balance because often our staff are trained in ways to help volunteers do a successful job on important tasks. But if you give too much energy to your ministers and your staff, I've seen too often that congregations rest in being happy that someone else is out in the public square speaking for them, instead of each of us finding our own voice in whatever way feels right. This ministry has to be shared for it to really be in the marrow of our bones in this place. What will that look like in the future? Star number three, spiritual deepening. Elizabeth Kubler Ross wrote, consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how, in a deeper sense, we can become truly happy. It's kind of a good thing, actually, that this star is in our list because if you think about it, that really is another one of the essential components that we understand as the true purpose of why we gather to deepen our spirits and our connection with each other and all that is. The reason I wanted to make sure this was on the list is I loved the variety of ways that you told me that that deepening happens for you. You told me that it is often in worship that you find that sense of the deepening and connection. Many of you talked about the quest program. That is something that was around for many, many years and was an in-depth spiritual program and how it changed your life forever. Many of you talked about the number of meditation groups and your experience of finding community and the power of sharing quiet and meditation. As we celebrated this morning, so many of you talked about in religious education, whether with adults or with youth or with our children, that again and again what happened in the classroom was more than just intellectual stimulation, but life-changing truth that made its way somewhere deep within you. One of the questions I always ask a congregation is, are the offerings that we intentionally put together, do they speak successfully to a fairly broad swath of the theological and spiritual diversity that we already have in this place, much less opening the doors for people that could come here and really find the right community for them if we allowed them to feel truly welcome with all that they are spiritually. In particular, I've noted that staff and ministers have an opportunity to experience more of the spiritual diversity than sometimes the congregation seems to know already exists in your midst. How often do you really engage in conversations with each other that feel brave enough to share the deep vulnerability of what stirs your spirit? We can make more opportunities and we will in the coming months, but is this a space that is brave enough for real spiritual diversity and deepening to happen? Part number four, many of you have talked about again and again in this place, it is experiences of smaller groups that have deeply changed your life. Tandeka wrote, small groups aim to make moments matter again. In these gatherings of a few people, six to ten, usually meeting more than once a month or once a month, we attend to the lives of the spirit and each member holds on to a moment through personal sharing and by asking for or by listening to the details, textures, contents, feelings and ideas packed into that experience. As people pay attention to the details of each other's lives, this gathered community can extend a moment of time until it is filled to overflowing with thoughts and feelings that turn time into an experience that is not fleeting, but abiding. And because we are fully present, sacred time begins. Women in the various kinds of small groups that we offer, whether they be various kinds of covenant groups like our Chawa circles or now our journey circles, or just groups like men's and women's groups or even meditation groups or anything that brings people together regularly in community, they may offer the opportunity for that sacred sense of sharing in time. They at their best offer us the chance to minister to each other. And in a congregation of this size, it is one of the most important ways that you can be known and know each other. But they require all of us to do our part in them. They take a great deal of energy and resource and if you at some point don't participate in them, you really miss an essential opportunity for that powerful connection. Even if you think it is not your thing, even if you've tried it in the past and you've been there done that, you need to keep re-engaging in those experiences for them to really do their work, which is creating deeper connections within this place. Star number five, so many of you have talked about your experience of the deep spirit found within this physical space, the beauty and elegance of this space at First Unitarian. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. The beauty of the stone, the beauty of the light, the beauty of an opening or is a message for you. So many of you have talked about how the first time you walked into this space and it could be many spaces in this place that you felt something powerful happen within you and that on a regular basis, so many of you experienced that the time and energy and art that was put into the various spaces here speak to you and remind you of important things. In the future, what I invite us to do is to be very thoughtful and intentional about both what that gift of space gives to us, but also what it asks of us. In order for us to really maintain this space, you probably don't know, but about a quarter of our budget every year of our operating budget alone goes into keeping this space in some sort of working order and that doesn't even bring into the millions of dollars that we have to raise in order to really just keep this space safe and sustainable. There's no easy way for us to step out of that and it gives such a gift to the world. The important thing is that we understand the power of that gift and receive it with greater intention and think very carefully about what it asks of us in the future. So there are the five things most often that you have told me help you know what this place is about that have helped you feel a significant and life-changing power. What do you think about the list? Does it in some way speak to you today? And if it doesn't, what would help you understand what is important here? What in your opinion is missing from this list that is essential to you? And whatever the star-like qualities that you choose that help you know about this place, what deeper values are conveyed in them? What is expressed and sustained by these components of your shared life? What might these inspiring and grounding principles offer to you? I will remind you about these stars in the upcoming March newsletter and I will in a variety of ways help you explore these ideas and more in the future. How is it calling you forward with a sense of what is possible in this place? And how each of you in your own way will you find your own part in making that possibility real? Today we journey together with love and adventure into that place. Amen and blessed be. Every week as we move into the offering we think about all that is important to us and about the generosity that it asks of us. This week in particular I invite you to be aware that half of what we bring in today goes to Centro Hispano, which works in our community to help Latinx youth and families in Dane County and beyond find empowerment, hope and action for their lives. May a spirit of generosity inspire us as the offering is given and received. Every week we take a moment to thank those who share in the ministry of what allows for worship to be what it is and so we are grateful for our sound operator David Bryles and for Elizabeth Barrett, our worship associate, our lay ministers and Smiley and our greeters were Gail Bliss and Claire Box. Our ushers today were Mary Savage, Brian Channis, Daniel Bradley and Jane Nelson-Warrell and our hospitality is provided by Sandra Plish and Blaise Thompson. It is easy and a larger congregation to think that there are just so many people that every task just naturally is filled. But in truth almost every Sunday there are significant places that are not filled in each of our services and the tasks are satisfying and relatively easy. So very quickly we are inviting three of the people that fill those tasks to tell you just a little bit about them. I hope as you listen that you will think about whether you are able to give some time to do these tasks and if not these, some other way to contribute to this place that means so much to all of us. So being a worship associate, I like it because I like public speaking here in my religious home, sharing our Unitarian Universalist values and being able to see our congregation. I mean I can see all of your beautiful faces and that is so heartwarming. So worship associate, sound the gong at the beginning of the service, then do the welcome and then a little bit later light the chalice and it's a good idea to get her 30 minutes before in case someone tells you that you are supposed to speak at a different time too and you do it for both Sunday services so you do it for both 9 and 11, thanks. Good morning. I'm Jane Nelson-Warrell. About a year ago I checked the box on one of these forms that was in the order of service and indicated that I would commit to ushering and just personally I decided that I could handle that once a month because I was going to be here at service anyway. And I've really found it to be an easy way to serve the society and to really meet some new people and build community. The role of being an usher really means that once I filled this form out I was contacted by Dorit Bergen who is the volunteer coordinator. She reached out and connected me with a usher who was experienced and we served together one Sunday. I was shown the ropes and thereafter I just go on to the online sign up which is there for all volunteers and I checked the box for which of the services which Sunday I want to be here and usher and then I get a reminder a couple days in advance and I show up about 20 to 30 minutes before service so that we can get organized. Usually there's four of us here on a Sunday service and so we just sort of divide up the responsibilities which include handing out the hymnals and the order of service for the day, welcoming people, helping them get into the auditorium, help newcomers find the bathrooms and coat racks if that's appropriate. And then of course it's pretty obvious we collect the office when the time comes and then a few of us go up and sort the donations and then we clean up after service just meaning we just kind of put together things especially after the 9 o'clock service so that it's neat and tidy for those who come for the 11 o'clock. Good morning on this rather cool morning. It is really a gift to greet all of you. Greeting before a Sunday service is a lovely way to begin worship or as we sometimes say to bring up that which is of worth. This community is of worth. So that's just one example and the volunteer opportunity offers huge benefits including seeing friends, meeting new friends, talking with you, each of you in addition getting high fives, lots of smiles, hugs, what a way to start the day. Just arrive a little early and open your heart to all who arrive. Often I bring a friend with me like Sunshine. Sunshine it was named by one of your children a couple of weeks ago. And you know even old people like to play a little bit at least this old person. So I get a lot of delight in greeting and playing and enjoying the it's a really joyful experience for me. And greeting is another way to bring a loving sense of community to each other as we enter into this sacred space. And as Starhawk says community, somewhere there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us. Voices will light up as we enter. Voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Somewhere where we can be free. I hope that you will think about ways that you can offer the generosity of your time including in these tasks. I also want to remind folks that tomorrow night because of the likelihood of bad weather that the men's group is canceled. You can always check on our website for other cancellations because of weather. We move into a time of joys and sorrows. Once a month in the service we invite people to share the important events of their life. Whether they be moments of great difficulty and struggle or moments of joy and celebration. In a spirit of acceptance and support we share with one another these events and circumstances that affect our lives. So for the next few minutes anyone who wishes is invited to step to the front of the auditorium, light a candle and use the microphone provided by our way minister briefly sharing with us your message. You can also come forward and light a candle wordlessly and return to your seat. And if you are unable to come forward please raise your hand and we will bring the microphone to you and light a candle on your behalf. In particular we acknowledge that today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day and so we hold the deeper truths of remembering that both the stories of the past and how they live in us today. I now open the floor for the sharing of our sorrows and our joys. I'm Connie Beam and in January and even in December our family seems to celebrate the majority of the birthdays that we have and in this month of January my dad turned 87 and we are just so blessed to have him in our lives and yesterday and today both Roslyn Woodward and David Beam celebrated significant birthdays as well and I just thought let's light a candle for all of them we are so grateful for them being in our lives. Hi I'm Matt Howard I have a joy next week I'll be celebrating three years of remission from multiple myeloma which is an incurable blood cancer that I was diagnosed with three and a half years ago so I'm extremely happy about that it's been great. Hi there my name is Jack Blaster earlier this month I got in an accident when I was going northbound on Bedford's okay anyways so I was in an accident and I had the front left part of my Prius smashed up fortunately I wasn't in any serious danger I hit my head and was treated by medics so I ended up being okay unfortunately I lost my college graduation present that day since it couldn't move any further but so this is both a joy and a concern obviously is a concern because I could have I wasn't an accident that was pretty unfortunate it could have been a lot worse though I could have gone to the hospital but fortunately I'm okay now I lived to tell the tale as you can see so I'm really glad to be here and still be a functioning member of this congregation and I would like to warn other people just don't get in an accident if you can prevent it especially with the roads being what they are thank you so you know what the weather is expected this week and I'm just thinking about all the homeless in Madison all the shelters are stuffed they're in great need it's going to be minus 50 with windshield so may we open our hearts and our wallets and our sense of compassion to those who have nothing long underwear is really needed along with sugar so just remember in Dane County and really all over the Midwest there's places that people need help I'm Laura Tills and I have a sorrow we lost our two 18-year-old family cats in the last two months and so we miss them but we also have a joy we have two kittens I'm Kim Stegi and I have a sorrow and a joy my husband's brother is struggling with cancer and we are new grandparents for the first time so we have a two-month-old granddaughter in Chicago Daphne and we light one last candle for all the joys and the sorrows that remain unspoken and are too tender to share but are still held in this space and in the fullness of our hearts as we breathe together and as we are together may we understand the gift of community and all that it offers I invite us to rise in all the ways that we do and join together in hymn number 1014 in the Teal hymnal entitled standing on the side of love many of the people in our congregation who are differently able to have spoken to the fact that the standing on the side of love sometimes feels painful to them we invite if it would be something that feels comfortable to you you can also try using the phrase answering the call of love regardless we will sing together 1014 verse 1 and 3 the promise of the spirit faith hope and love abound and so every soul is blessed and made whole the truth ain't together as hard emboldened by faith we dare to proclaim a bright new day is dawn elections of grace in every inch fulfilling the vision divine together has hearts beat as one emboldened by faith and now may the stars that guide us on our journeys remain vivid to us may they illuminate our path with their wisdom may they energize us for the important work may they warm us with compassion and hope and comfort when we need it most we extinguish this chalice but not the light of wisdom the warmth of community or the fire of justice these remain until we gather in this place again I invite you to take your seat and to receive the gift of one other musical piece as we are together


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Hello and welcome to the session in which we will discuss input controls. Input controls is a form of a preventive control. Now what is a preventive control? Preventive control is trying to deal with the issue before it happens. You're trying to eliminate the error before it infects your system. So eliminate any mistakes, error, garbage, right from the source. Don't let those mistakes, errors infect your system. This is what I mean by preventive. Don't let it happen in the first place. Now you can use human, basically people, to prevent errors or you can automate the system. Now every time you can automate the system, especially for routine transaction, it should be done. So human intervention, the reason we call it input control because if a human is inputting the information into the system, think about the old days, they will input everything by typing. This is what we mean by input control, making sure input control, making sure the human does not make mistakes. Well, as technology progresses, we were able to automate many of those input controls. Sometimes they're called program control, edit checks, and in other terms for them is origination controls. Simply put, when we say origination control, that means right from the origin, the computer is taking care of the controls versus input control, the source of a human intervention. Don't get hung on the term just in case you saw it. I'm just gonna call it input controls. Now why people are not as good as computers? Well, people can make a judgment, but when it comes to making errors, people get tired sometime. Computers don't get tired. Programs don't get tired once they are programmed properly.  They don't do what they're supposed to do. They lose motivation. They might be having a bad day. For all these reasons, automated controls, if you can find a way for the system, for the IT system to prevent errors from happening, you would let the system do it. So technically, we are relying on a computer system to have input control. Before we proceed any further, I have a public announcement about my company, farhatlectures.com. Farhat accounting lectures is a supplemental educational tool that's gonna help you with your CPA exam preparation as well as your accounting courses. My CPA material is aligned with your CPA review course such as Becker, Roger, Wiley, Gleam, Myles. My accounting courses are aligned with your accounting courses broken down by chapter and topics. My resources consist of lectures, multiple choice questions, true-false questions, as well as exercises. Go ahead, start your free trial today. No obligation, no credit card required. So what are the objective of that? Well, we want to make sure that the transaction that we process are authorized. So validity is important. So one of the objective of the input control it promote validity. For example, you won't be able to input a ghost customers and we're gonna see specifically, we're gonna, I'm gonna discuss 12 specific controls that's gonna achieve those objective. Validity is one, input control promote validity. It promote completeness or achieve completeness. You might want to have an input control where you wanna make sure you're capturing the transaction details, everything. You're not missing any information. So another objective of input is to achieve completeness. So the transaction is valid. It's not only valid, you captured everything. Three, you wanna make sure the data is accurate. So a third objective of input controls is to have accuracy, help you only enter the correct data. And notice these are the V's, the C's and the A's. So when I discuss the input control I would have next to the input control. What does it mainly focus on? Is it validity? Is it completeness? What does it promote accuracy? So on and so forth. And the fourth objective of input control is promote efficiency. Computers work faster. They don't get tired. They work 24-7 a day. They don't need breaks. So you spend less time and resources to accomplish your goal if you could automate the system. So and that's the fourth objective of input control is efficiency. For example, a scanner. Think about if you're standing in line somewhere and this happens to me all the time when I buying a cup of coffee from Wawa or in a retail store where the scanner cannot read the numbers because the box is damaged. Then what happened? The person that's the teller will have to input the code. And sometimes like 15, 16, 18, 20 digits and sometimes they make mistakes. It takes time to process the transaction versus a scanner. You scan the item and the sale is recorded. So also input control basically scanning is part of it. It's capturing the information, capturing what item we are selling. It promote efficiency. Now specifically I'm gonna be looking at 12 input controls. What do you have to do as a CPA candidate? Well, one thing is you have to understand them. I think they are common to a great degree if you understand them they're common sense but you also you have to memorize and you have to know how to apply given a risk how would this control address that risk? Starting with missing data check or completeness check. This is an input control. If I'm sure this happens with you as well. Sometime you are filling a form online and you try to submit and after you submit it says you did not complete this form. What happened is the form is programmed that it doesn't submit. It doesn't complete the transaction until you input all the necessary information. So this will promote completeness and accuracy. Now another similar input control to this is promoting input check. And I'm pretty sure sometime what happens is you are filling out a form. It gives you only one box at a time or one question to answer. You cannot proceed until to the next field until you completed the previous question. Also this promote completeness and accuracy. Simply put, you cannot submit the information. Actually you cannot complete it to submit it unless you answered all the questions. So these two promote basically completeness. Three, we have something called field check or edit check. So the data must be acceptable. So you program the field and people who are familiar with database are familiar with this. Would it only accept certain type of data? For example, if it's a name, it should only accept letters. Now we could have a person with numbers in their name. I'm not sure. Okay, but it should only accept letters. For example, if it's a zip code, it should accept numbers. If it's a date format, it should have the date. They have to be, for example, June 3rd is 0603 2005. Length and format. And it verified the length and the format. Here you wanna make sure that the data is valid and accurate. Also, you have to understand that also, for example, if you have social security, you want to use numbers. For example, under social security, you only accept numbers. For example, under a state, you would only accept two letters. And we're gonna talk about where this, you don't even, you cannot even put any two letters you want. And we're gonna talk about how you control which two letters. Also for the zip code, yes, it is five digit, but those five digit has to be valid. And I'm gonna show you soon what control do we have to make sure those two, for example, are valid to illustrate this. You could also have a limit test, okay? For example, the field does not exceed a specified value, otherwise it's rejected. For example, the zip code. Now, some zip codes, you know, we could have up to nine, but most people use five. For example, there's only five digit. You can only have five digits. You cannot have four digit zip code. You cannot have six digit zip code. So you specify how many, so you'll tell it, I want to have a numeric value in this and only five numeric value. In addition to the five numeric value, those numeric value has to be valid and we'll talk about that later. Same thing with state name, okay? So also you can have a limit test. Also you could have a limit test in terms of, for example, if you don't want your employees to work overtime, your system would not accept more than 40 hours per week. So if you try, let's assume someone wants to add some hours, overtime hours, they can't, the system itself don't allow you to do it. Now you might have to overcome the system. Maybe you have to get the manager to override it. That's a different story, but the system itself, it has a limit test. So this is a limit test where it limits you. For example, any check or refund should not exceed $500. That's a limit test. You just don't let the system do it. It just, it stopped you from doing it. For example, date of birth for minors. Once a minor input their date of birth, if in the date format, it will trigger that this individual cannot be, we cannot hire this individual because they are minor. It rejects the application upfront. So those are examples of limit test. And there's many, many applications to the limit test. There's also a range test. For example, you can program the input basically to accept a minimum and a maximum or something in between. For example, order quantity has to be at least one, but you cannot order more than 10 of any particular item. Maybe we have a shortage of it. Therefore, we don't want them to order more than 10 items at a time. So you would have a range test to make sure, to make sure no one over-order basically. Or hours work. For example, if you have part-time employees, you want every employee to work at least five hours and cannot exceed 30 hours. Therefore, in the system, when they input the hours, again, assuming it's controlled with a timesheet, it has to be at least five and does not exceed 30. Think of a trading platform at a major brokerage house. Let's assume a stock is trading at $100. For example, they can program it where somebody inputting the order cannot have more than 5% higher or 5% lower. So simply put, a trader cannot make a mistake and put, for example, a $1,000 trade, which is the whole market will go bazook. It happened before. But the point is you could have a range where you cannot bid the price more than 5% of its most current price. So this is what a range test, range test is. Sign test, basically, whether you want to tell the system whether to accept negative numbers or no negative numbers. So if somebody input a negative number, it will be rejected. For example, for a refund, it might be accepted. Also, we have an integrity or validity test. And this is what I was talking about earlier when we talk about a zip code or a state. Okay, so you want, for a zip code, you want it to be numeric and you want it to be five. Now also, could you put any five zip codes? Not at all. What you will do, data input is cross-reference to a database. So you'll have a database. You can buy a database from somewhere else. For example, from the United States Postal Service, the zip codes in the US. And what you do when the individual is inputting the zip code, 19380, automatically this zip code is checked against the database. If that zip code agree in making sure it's agree with the state, for example, state of Pennsylvania, then the zip code is accepted. So whatever a customer, whatever an individual tried to input the data, that data, often time, is cross-referenced against a primary key. Now the zip code is an easy example to kind of work with but also, if someone is adding a customer, you cannot add a customer, for example, unless that customer is already in the database. Now hold on a second. So who put that customer in the database? We're gonna have other controls about that customer we'll talk about later. So let's assume you want to add a customer and you put their number one, five, six, seven, eight. Just make up some number. If that number don't already exist in the database, this new customer will have through some type of a control system to be in the system. Same thing for vendor ID, same thing for employees. So when you input the information, it's cross-referenced with something else. Otherwise, the entry is not acceptable. It will be rejected. This is called integrity test or validity test. And this is very important because it promotes validity, accuracy, completeness and efficiency. So you don't have to kind of figure out the zip code once you type it in. It's gonna verify it, make sure it's correct. Also what you can have is check digit. And all these controls are interrelated. So check digit is somehow interrelated to integrity test. Credit card uses those, a lot not uses those, always uses those. Basically it's a secret formula to ensure the account number is correct. How so? Remember this customer here when I try to input that customer number. For example, the company might have some sort of a secret formula. So when you create a customer, you create a unique customer number. And that number could be, I'm just gonna make up some numbers, four, seven, six, four, two. Now that number does not mean anything to you. It does not mean anything to me. So I'm gonna figure it out now, what I just did. So let's see. Four plus seven plus six plus four plus two. Let me add all these numbers up. Just I'm making something up. Four plus seven plus six plus four plus two. If my math is right is 23. Okay? Now I might have a secret formula that all my account numbers has to add up to 23. Okay? So, you know, but no one would know this formula. I'm just saying it could be. Now let's make it 24. Let's make plus three. Okay, make it 24. Or I would say once I will have a four. The numbers for a customer should equal to 24. And you divide 24 divided by two equal to 12 plus five equal to 17. So the formula will have to, when we add all the digits, divide them by two, add five, it should equal to 17. So something like that. So the system would verify that this is a legitimate new customer. So not anyone can add a customer. And once that customer is established in the database, then when I go to sell this customer, I have an integrity test and I'm assured. Now, you know, companies don't tell their employees, maybe the programmers know about these, like especially credit card company, the way that number, that number means something. There's a formula in there. You add up all the numbers, divide them by five, multiply them by six, minus one, should equal to a number. You don't know what it is. Otherwise you could make up any number and send the number and who knows, maybe it will work, right? But that's not how it works. This is called a check digit. You could also have a reasonable check or logic test within the form or within the input process. Check to see if data in two or more field is consistent. For example, you can compare the date of birth and the age. You can ask the applicant to put their age and to put their date of birth and the computer can figure out what should be the age and if there's any discrepancy, it will prompt you. Or if it's a salaried employee, if it's salaried employee, they should not have any hourly rate data. Key verification. And here we should be all familiar with key verification. It's when you type the password twice or when you type your email twice, why to make sure? And believe me, this happens all the time. Even my company, like Farhat Lectures, you only input your account number once. You input your email once.  Well, I'm using my email and it's not working. Well, what happened is my software don't have the key verification process. They don't ask you to put your email twice. They ask you to put it once. So if you chose an email, let's assume your email is Farhat667 667, and you input it as Farhat6677. Well, you're gonna register, but you have the wrong email. When you try to log in with Farhat667, it's not gonna work. And you're gonna email me, so why it's not working? Now I know immediately that when you input your email, there's something correct. I'll go in, I would look up the customer, I would say, this is the email that you use 677. Log in with it, then go back and change it. But this is what key verification is.   And I use this when I submit grades for my students. We have a closed loop verification. I input all the grades, I submit. It shows me like I submit the first time to kind of review everything, like every individual with their grade. And if I agree to it one more time, I'll click on submit this way. If there's a mistake, I can go back and change it. This is called closed loop verification. Another input measurement is pre-formatted or pre-filled form. Simply put, make the form, the electronic form as similar as possible to a physical form. If it's a physical form exists and pre-fill it with certain items. For example, the date of the transaction. So as soon as the individual opened the application to start the sales transaction, that information is already entered. So we know exactly what date it took place. The name of the individual, the name of the person that's working on this transaction, import it there. If we need the time, their IDs, if the term of the sale for this customer is acceptable, well, we should automatically, so once they select the customer, maybe the customer have certain terms of sale that should also populate it. So all these are what are they called input control? And the reason for this is to make sure that right from the beginning we are inputting correct information into our accounting information system, into our software.  Try to avoid the garbage right from the get go. So this way you avoid mistakes and processing and output, which we'll talk about in the next session. What should you do now? Go to far hat lectures. Look at additional resources, MCQs, multiple choice. That's gonna help you understand this important topic that's tested on the CPA exam and in your accounting information system or data analytics. Good luck, study hard, accounting is worth it. Stay safe.


Why is this called poor lonely whitey welcome back to the channel though My name is Jack the bus or you can call me. I should know be what's just some more mob cycle 100 today in last episode was absolutely Fantastic doctor at the park in every department with the voice acting animation Everything and now the psycho helmet religion has some crazy funding if you do channel Don't forget to drop a sub and let's hop into it. Oh My god Reagan origin. Let's go His current office though right Feels like his own building now He just rented it for fun he got figured out so he just read like those types of magazines He's like, huh people make a lot of money doing this kind of thing I wonder if this is showing that it's gonna be like an actual like backstory episode with Reagan I'd be down for it. Honestly, I Like how they just added body improvement club to the telepathy club sign 34 push-ups is good mom. I'm proud Let's go Dude, there's such a good support system. It's so nice What if dimples mindset has changed I worry about him sometimes The two clubs coming together everybody's gonna get tossed This is so wholesome Because now he has his whole whole building. I mean at least he has the flare for it It's the website man website's got a busy Yeah, I know didn't fall off the horse My god Actually true. Yeah, that's the end goal. I think we're just have more confidence in himself It's not his responsibility to help you I would love to see mob do karaoke man, holy You can't be shy karaoke, bro Oh Everything's going too well There has to be some kind of problem soon And it's Reagan calling him to ask for help Wait You speaking for himself No stand your ground mob Don't go. This is a big character development moment I'm pissed at Reagan.  This should take priority. He's having fun and he was happy Wait, it was real I thought it was a joke And There's mob Bob go back. There's still time karaoke. He's starting to get kind of heard There was a part of him that was gonna say no he's getting there. I think Even temples realizing what's going on how mobs realized it Oh my god, you're not well, I mean you have some positive influence Damn Reagan Yes Dog is all engraved. Oh my god Reagan overplayed his hand Dog this is wild Right and loses so much business if he does not mob do not all of it because they can still scam people but a lot What about you Some brotherly bonding time Yeah, he's screwed if it is now Him practicing the salt throwing Himself in the same that this is a positive, you know, he didn't mob means a lot to him He's gonna need to treat him right The projection I know it's gonna be complete opposite for Reagan I think Reagan's gonna start to lose himself mobs gonna start to find himself This is so bizarre how fast things happen though in the span of one episode. Oh boy. That was the one-punch shirt. Oh Oh This is awkward. Oh, this is so awkward He's like in fact, he's doing way better now This will give good insight into dimples POV Oh, no, he's gonna trick devil into helping him get mob back Dimple knows where he gets desperate Hmm like I said so much has happened the relationship is just kind of just gone Updated so that he doesn't have to take on any actual spirits, maybe Let's go make up karaoke, I really hope I get to hear him sing they better not tease me like this Book oh No, is Reagan gonna realize he has like nobody Oh Wait, is it today?  I mean at least his mom's checking in on him. Why do you recruit men? Is it good a job app? Come on mom Absolutely not this is so depressing I mean Reagan kind of wish it upon himself, but still He knows a bartender How does he know everybody here? He's schemas them Yeah real like hunting ground for him He's the key to it all so he comes here to boost his ego even though they're not real friends Let's go beg mob to take him back.   Oh, no, I forgot about him He's like how did I end up here? Oh no, he's gonna get tested like live basically How does he scam his way I like I said someone's gonna find him out See Jonas an actual psychic He says this No shot this is all revenge for that no My boy got tricked into coming here he's been set up completely but honestly, I know Reagan I have a feeling he can find some way out of this like genuinely it's just who he is But my goodness what development in one single episode like I said every mob psycho 100 episode has so much packed into it I had like a whiplash trying to keep up I mean over the span of 20 minutes mob and Reagan's relationship completely disconnected someone that mob has the person I'm often closest to for years. He's just completely out of his life now. He's doing fine It showed how Reagan as Positive as an influence he had on some aspects of mob. He was sort of a parasite to say the least I think there's a world where mob and Reagan can be friends But Reagan has to figure out how to live alone without mob to be able to exist like that because he's realized how much he Crouched on mob and now he's gotten two in his head and he's overplayed his hand very clearly going on TV like this Not knowing his limits as he usually does but guys That's been for my mob psycho 100 reaction if you're new to channel don't forget to drop us up and I'll catch you in the next one He space