Big data in accounting: An overview

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 381-396

  Vasarhelyi, Miklos A ^a   Kogan, Alexander ^a   Tuttle, Brad M ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytics; Audit judgment; Enterprise data ecosystem; Reporting; Standards; Storage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943553776     PISSN: 08887993     EISSN: 15587975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/acch-51071     Document Type: Article

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