A payroll clerk accidently entered an employee's hours worked for the week as 380 instead of 38.The data entry control that would best prevent this error would be
A) a limit check.
B) a check digit.
C) batch total reconciliation.
D) a field check.

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A limit check would prevent the entry of any value greater than the maximum allowable hours worked in a week, which in this case is likely to be less than 380. Therefore, this would have prevented the error from occurring. A check digit verifies the accuracy of data entry but in this case, the error is not related to mistyping a single digit. Batch total reconciliation would ensure that the total hours worked for all employees match the total hours entered, but it would not catch an error like this one. A field check ensures that data is entered in the correct format, but it would not catch a value that is within the correct format but still incorrect.

A Payroll Clerk Accidently Entered an Employee's Hours Worked for the Week