The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 places significant and costly new burdens on public companies. Meeting the recurring requirements for financial reporting under SOX effectively will demand innovative application of information technology. The Continuous Auditing Web Services model (CAWS) provides a framework for considering how to efficiently manage and automate financial reporting. We prop...

In 1986, the Audit Education Committee of the Audit Section of the world’s foremost accounting scholarly association – the American Accounting Association – concluded that knowledge of business systems was important to the study of auditing but best acquired prior to taking auditing. Although the close relationship between the accounting information systems (AIS) and auditing courses has been r...

Continuous Auditing (CA) has been investigated over time and it is, somewhat, in practice within financial and transactional auditing as a part of continuous assurance and monitoring. Enterprise Information Systems that run their activities in the form of processes require continuous auditing of a process that invokes the action(s) specified in the policies and rules in a continuous manner. A s...

Both auditors and credit rating agencies have been linked to financial scandals in recent history. In the early 2000’s, several of the “big five” accounting firms issued favorable audit opinions to public companies employing deceptive accounting practices. Some of these companies even committed outright fraud. Once the investing public caught wind of these accounting irregularities, it lost tru...

Objective: By the full adoption of IFRS, measurement and disclosure of fair values become more common in Iranian financial reporting. The present study aims to identify the technical challenges of fair value measurement and disclosure in accordance with the proposed framework in IFRS13 as well as technical factors underlying resistance to fair-value based financial reporting from accounting and...