Bellswood Jewelers uses an ID card scanner and six-digit code to allow entry into their jewelry vault. The six-digit code is the same for all employees. However, use of the ID card allows the system to identify who entered the vault. One day, a salesperson sees another salesperson’s ID card lying unattended in the break room, and the employee uses the card to enter the vault and steal jewelry worth $36,840. Which principle of control activities was violated in this scenario?

Establishment of responsibility is an characteristic of control such as internal related methods,measures adopted within an organization to safeguard assets and enhance the reliability of accountability, increase efficiency of operations,etc and which is used for assigning of responsibility to an individuals i.e when only ONE person is responsible for a given task.

Bellswood Jewelers makes used of the principle of establishment of responsibility in it operations.

The salesperson who sees another salesperson’s ID card lying unattended in the break room, and then make uses of the card to enter the vault and steal jewelry worth $36,840 had violated the establishment of responsibility of Bellswood