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Responsibility and reporting lines cannot always be
established when auditing automated systems since:
A. diversified control makes ownership irrelevant.
B. staff traditionally change jobs with greater frequency.
C. ownership is difficult to establish where resources are
shared.
D. duties change frequently in the rapid development of
technology.
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Answer: C
Because of the diversified nature of both data and
application systems, the actual owner of data and
applications may be hard to establish.
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