Big data analytics in financial statement audits

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 423-429

  Cao, Min ^a   Chychyla, Roman ^b   Stewart, Trevor ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical methods; Auditing; Big data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943558103     PISSN: 08887993     EISSN: 15587975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/acch-51068     Document Type: Article

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