Accounting Multiple Choice Question – 28 November 2025

ISA (UK) 315 states that an internal control system in an organisation consists of five components:

• the control environment
• the entity’s risk assessment process
• the information system
• the control activities
• the monitoring of controls

For each of the following examples, select the component which it illustrates:

• Review of actual performance against the budget

Select ONE answer:

1. the control environment
2. the control activities
3. the entity’s risk assessment process
4. the monitoring of controls

Show your workings to arrive at your answer, and explain and justify your reasons:

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This multiple-choice question is suitable for Accounting KS5 classes.

The answer is 2

1. Not correct
2. Correct => Review of actual performance versus budget is a control activity.
3. Not correct
4. Not correct

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