Is your SOX scope built for platforms, or just applications?
A 3-minute assessment for audit leaders. Find out whether your scope, and whoever built it, actually accounts for how your financial data moves through modern platforms.
No email required to see your result. Honest answers only. This is a mirror, not a quiz.
Start the assessmentRate your current scope
For each statement, answer as it is today, not as it should be. "Not sure" is a real answer, and a useful one: if you can't demonstrate it, an auditor can't either.
Where your scope looks thin
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Whoever owns your scope, your IT audit team or your external firm, should be able to answer these on the spot. Where they can't, you've found the gap.
- Show me the data lineage for revenue: every system the number touches from origin to the financial statements, including the ones with no login.
- Which data platform computes or transforms our financial figures, and where is it in our SOX scope?
- How do changes reach our financial systems, and where is the deployment pipeline in our change-management controls?
- For our key platform controls, who is the single owner, and how do we prove the control operated all period, not just at a point in time?
- For every platform we excluded from scope, what's the written rationale, and would our external auditor accept it?
Most SOX programs were built for a world of self-contained applications. The companies running on cloud, pipelines, identity providers, and data platforms changed; the scoping method mostly didn't. This assessment is the standard every audit leader should have before they sign off on a platform scope.