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Computer Auditing: The way forward

2019· article· en· W4205583062 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Computer Auditing · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicBig Data and Business Intelligence
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAuditInternal auditAccountingAnalyticsInformation technology auditOperational auditingBusinessAudit evidenceAudit planJoint auditProcess managementComputer scienceData science

Abstract

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<p>We broadly define computer auditing as any audit practices that may rely on information technology (IT). Such skill has long been argued and considered to be an important capability for both external and internal auditors for more than two decades though its applications were relatively limited in the past. In recent years, with the advance of information technology, what auditors can achieve with IT has dramatically changed. For example, auditors are now be able to perform both descriptive and predictive analyses, process both numeric and textual data, and apply such capability from assertion testing to compliance and risk assessments. This evolving capability has also brought the new term “audit analytics” to practices. Specifically, analytics focuses more on the business decisions and processes while the traditional computer auditing is mainly about audit. This improved capability and expanded scope have attracted a lot of attention with a wide range of applications. For instance, the PCAOB’s new strategic plan (PCAOB 2018 ) has highlighted that “[i]nnovations in data analytics and technology have great potential to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of financial reporting and the audit process” (p.9). Audit firms and internal audit functions have also engaged in the development and the use of analytics in external and internal audit processes (e.g., Forbes 2018; Deloitte 2016; KPMG 2016), which have potentially changed the role of internal auditors to internal consultants.</p> <p> </p>

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.715
Threshold uncertainty score0.840

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.272
Teacher spread0.241 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it