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James, who was engaged to examine the financial statements of Talbert Corporation,is about to audit payroll. Talbert uses a computer service center to process weeklypayroll as follows.Each Monday Talbert’s payroll clerk inserts data in appropriate spaces on the preprintedservice center-prepared input form and sends it to the service center via messenger.The service center extracts new permanent data from the input form and updatesits master files. The weekly payroll data are then processed. The weekly payroll registerand payroll checks are printed and delivered by messenger to Talbert on Thursday.Part of the sample selected for audit by James includes the data from the “payrollinput” table and payroll register, which are provided below followed by the Talbertpayroll register.Required:a. Describe how James should verify the information in the payroll input formshown.b. Describe (but do not perform) the procedures that James should follow in examiningthe November payroll register shown below.(AICPA, adapted)

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