Audit practitioners have been progressively adopting communications and analytic technology to extend the scope, change the timing, and reduce the costs of audit processes. These efforts have been mainly ad hoc, lacking an integrative theoretical positioning. This paper redefines the concept of...

The ability to automatically extract information from the footnotes of financial statements simplifies access to critical information concerning public companies. However, extraction can be particularly challenging due to great variations in the filing structure and terminologies used....

Continuous audit has presently been adopted by many public and private firms, despite different adoption levels (PwC, 2006; Vasarhelyi et al., 2012). Implementations of continuous monitoring and audit on government procurement analysis are rare, even though wastes and abuses easily occur during the...

This paper analyzes the differences in methods of calculating and disclosing net assets between Statement of Financial Accounting Standards #33 (FAS33) and other existing current cost and constant dollar methods. Furthermore, this paper provides empirical evidence on the methods employed by a...

In this paper we discuss the value that process mining of event logs can provide to internal and external auditors. Process mining aims to extract knowledge from event logs recorded by an information system. What makes an event log such a unique and potentially invaluable resource for auditing...