Audit Analytics in the Financial Industry

Audit Analytics in the Financial Industry by Jun Dai

In Audit Analytics in the Financial Industry, editors Jun Dai, Miklos A. Vasarhelyi and Ann F. Medinets bring together a cast of expert contributors to explore ways to integrate Audit Analytics techniques into existing audit programs for the financial industry.  Separated into six parts, the contributors take a variety of approaches to this exploration. In Part One, the contributors present two articles illustrating the process of applying Audit Analytics to solving audit problems. Part Two contains four studies that use various Audit Analytics techniques to discover fraud risks and potential frauds in the credit card sector. In Part Three, the chapter focus on the insurance sector and show the application of clustering techniques in auditing. Part Four includes two chapters on how to employ Audit Analytics in the transitory system for fraud/anomaly detection. Finally, Parts Five and Six illustrate the use of Audit Analytics to assess risk in the lawsuit and payment processes.   For students, researchers, and professionals in the accounting sector, this is an unmissable read exploring the latest research in Audit Analytics.

In light of the accounting scandals and corporate failures since 2001, accounting researchers say, auditors are turning to the emerging techniques of audit analytics to extract and process data from a variety of sources in order to identify risks, collect evidence, and ultimately support decisionsThey illustrate the process of applying audit analytics to solving audit problems in the financial industry, present case studies of discovering fraud risks and potential frauds in the credit card sector, demonstrate clustering techniques in the insurance sector and applying audit analytics to detect fraud/anomaly in the transitory system, and discuss assessing risk in the lawsuit and payment processes. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *

Jun Dai is an Assistant Professor at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China. She received her Ph.D. from Rutgers Business School in 2017, and she researches accounting information systems and continuous auditing. Miklos A. Vasarhelyi is the KPMG Distinguished Professor of Accounting Information Systems at Rutgers University, and serves as Director of the Rutgers Accounting Research Center (RARC) and Continuous Auditing & Reporting Lab (CAR Lab).  Ann F. Medinets is an Associate Professor of Professional Practice at Rutgers University. Her paper "Say-on-Pay: Is Anybody Listening?" with Stephani Mason and Dan Palmon in the Multinational Finance Journal was featured on Harvard's Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, and is among the top 10% of SSRN downloads.

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ISBN 13	9781787430860
ISBN 10	1787430863
Title	Audit Analytics in the Financial Industry
Author	Jun Dai
Series	Rutgers Studies In Accounting Analytics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Emerald Publishing Limited
Year published	2019-10-28
Number of pages	248
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