Managing data quality risk in accounting information systems

Information Systems Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 453-473

  Bai, Xue ^a   Nunez, Manuel ^a   Kalagnanam, Jayant R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounting information systems; Audit; Constrained Markov decision processes; Control; Data quality; Risk

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONTROL; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; QUALITY CONTROL; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; RISKS;

ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS; AUDIT; CONSTRAINED MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; DATA QUALITY; MARKOV DECISION PROCESS MODELS; MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS; OPTIMAL CONTROL POLICY; PRODUCTION COMPANIES;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 84871334204     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1110.0371     Document Type: Article

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