Questões Concurso CD

Without changing the meaning of the text, the fragment “explains the basic rationale for instituting controls rather straightforwardly” (l.16-17) could be correctly replaced with explains a common-sense approach to retain control instead of simply handing it over.

People have inherited from the Bible the notion that auditing is necessary because of the inherently dishonest nature of human beings.

The word “allay” (l.3) is used as a verb and it means reduce or ease.

The author points to a discontinuity in the history of financial bookkeeping from the end of the 15^th century to the 18^th century.

The idea expressed in the second paragraph can be correctly explained by the following sentence: In 2002 a draft bill was voted by the American Congress proposing the setting of enhanced standard for all US state-owned-company boards, management and public accounting firms.