Design and evaluation of a continuous data level auditing system

Auditing

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 221-246

  Kogan, Alexander ^a   Alles, Michael G ^a   Vasarhelyi, Miklos A ^a   Wu, Jia ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical procedures; Auditing practice; Continuous auditing; Population data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943566182     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: 15587991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-50844     Document Type: Article

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