The following is a description of an internal control. DESCRIPTION: The compensation committee reviews compensation plans for se
nior executives to ensure that both monetary and equity-based pay totals are consistent with contracts approved by the board of directors. Required: Indicate which of the COSO internal control components is best represented by each internal control. a. Information and Communication b. Control Environment c. Monitoring d. Risk Assessment e. Control Activities
Control activities is a part of Control environment and in the given scenario, the company has a system of policies and procedures implemented to ensure whether the approved activities are carried out or not. This includes the segregation of duties, as the Compensation Committee is assigned the task to reviewing whether the payments that were made to the senior executives, both cash and equity based payments, are consistent with their contracts or not. Furthermore if it is not complied by the contract then relevant actions are carried out. So these are best represented by control activities.
According to Amazon, the demographics report “shows Brand Owners the breakdown of their Amazon customers (in aggregate) by age, household income, education, gender, and marital status.
They work for Sally. Sally hired Truly, Glen and Fred and pays them an hourly wage, and provides the tools that they use to perform their work. She also supervises and directs their job. They are not independent contractors due to the direct relation that exists between them and the fact that they obey Sally's orders.
