Functional acknowledgements are used:
A. as an audit trail for EDI transactions.
B. to functionally describe the IS department.
C. to document user roles and responsibilities.
D. as a functional description of application software.
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Answer: A
Functional acknowledgements are standard EDI transactions
that tell trading partners that their electronic documents
were received. Different types of functional acknowledgments
provide various levels of detail and therefore can act as an
audit trail for EDI transactions. The other choices are not
relevant to the description of functional acknowledgements.
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