Rural Enterprises raises sheep and cattle for meat production. As a technologically advanced ranching operation, Rural Enterprises has experimented with using drones to capture images of herds grazing to assist employees in obtaining physical inventory counts. Employees then count the animals in the images and record the data in the information system. What type of control classification best characterizes Rural's inventory system?

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Rural Enterprises' inventory system is a combination of manual and automated controls. The drones automatically capture images (an automated process), but employees manually count the animals from those images (a manual process).

Rural Enterprises Raises Sheep and Cattle for Meat Production