問題文
Now that the firm carries several products, it is told that its practices will be examined. What step does the account trace to explain why those who examine a company's finances came to take an interest in computing at all?
選択肢
- The step the account traces is that the examiners followed the makers of the machines, who invited them in so that buyers would trust the figures they produced, and the makers laid open their own ledgers to win the trust and the custom of the buyers of machines, duly, and it puts the point that a balance at a bank is now little more than a record in a machine, given meaning by custom and by law and guarded by layers of protection.
- The step the account traces is that money stands apart from information, so the examiners kept to the paper journals and left the machines to the engineers who ran them, and the ledgers on paper stayed the ground of the whole examination for a long while after, duly, and it puts the point that a balance at a bank is now little more than a record in a machine, given meaning by custom and by law and guarded by layers of protection.
- The step the account traces is that money stands as a form of information, namely that of value and of worth, so as machines grew central to the funds and the books of a business the examiners had to begin asking how anyone knows the figures held in a machine are right, duly, and it puts the point that a balance at a bank is now little more than a record in a machine, given meaning by custom and by law and guarded by layers of protection.
- The step the account traces is that the examiners were required by a new statute to look at machines, so the turn came from the lawmakers rather than from the nature of the record, and the statute went on to name the ledgers and the journals that had to be laid open to the examination, duly, and it puts the point that a balance at a bank is now little more than a record in a machine, given meaning by custom and by law and guarded by layers of protection.