The Future of Continuous Auditing and Reporting
The World Continuous Auditing and Reporting Symposium brings together academic and industry leaders to discuss, debate, and plan for the future of continuous auditing and reporting.
Click a link to the left to find the agendas and presentations for past conferences.
To see photos from past symposiums, click the Photo Albums link at the top.
Below you can find some featured papers and presentations from recent conferences.
13th WCARS
June 15-16, 2007 | University of Ferrara | Ferrara, Italy
Registration | Agenda | Photo Gallery
Day 1
Italian Panel - Continuous Audit and Reporting in Italy: Issues and Pros pects The Continuous Evolution of Continuous Auditing: Insights and Issues from the Outside In, by Prof. Stefano Zambon, University of Ferrara
Dr. Giuseppe Gullo, CFO, Mariella Burani S.p.A., and Andaf (Italian Association of CFOs)
Dr Paolo Voarino, Senior Executive, Tasc (Milan), and formerly Head of Internal Audit, Bipop Bank
Day 2
XBRL at the Monte dei Paschi di Siena: Experience and Prospects
Dr. Paolo Lombardi, Group Contact
Center Service, Monte dei Paschi di Siena (Italy)
Search Engines for Extracting, Managing, and Analyzing Knowledge
from the SEC Filings in XBRL and Beyond
Prof. Raj Srivastava, University of Kansas
Digital Accounting Research, XBRL, and the Challenge of
Non-Financial Information (Intangibles)
Prof.
Stefano Zambon, University of Ferrara
The XBRL Taxonomy Project in the Netherlands
Mr. Harm Jan van Burg, Ministry of Finance, the
Netherlands
Center for Audit Quality Efforts to Standardize and Increase
Frquency of Forensic-in-the-Audit
Mr. Christopher S. Rossie,
Vice-President, Business and Corporate Development, Oversight
Systems
12th WCARS
November 3-4, 2006 | Rutgers Business School | Newark, NJ
Call for Papers | Agenda | Photo Gallery
Day 1
Global Technology Audit Guide: Continuous Auditing
Adam Losner
Application of Continuous Auditing To a Sub Prime Loan
Portfolio
Benedetto Bongiorno, Lynford Graham
A Proposal for an XML-based Open Controls Definition
Standard
Silas Matteson
Benching Marking and Key Concepts in Implementing Continuous
Auditing/Monitoring
Clyde Rogers
Experiences with and Observations of Continuous Auditing and
Its Implementation, Bank Panel
Andrew Gonczi
Panel Discussion on Continuous Auditing
Paul Penler
Panel Discussion on Continuous Auditing
Thomas Lilienbecker
Reducing Information Friction: Facilitating Continuous
Auditing (and XBRL helps)
Eric Cohen
Day 2
Research Streams in Continuous Audit: A Review and Analysis
of the Existing Literature
Carol Brown, Oregon State University; Jeffrey A. Wong,
University of Nevada at Reno; and Amelia A. Baldwin,
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Intended and Unintended Consequences of Continuous Auditing
and Performance-Based Incentives on Managers’ Judgments and
Decisions
James E. Hunton, Bentley College, Elaine G. Mauldin,
University of Missouri-Columbia, and Patrick Wheeler,
University of Missouri-Columbia
An Efficient Approach to Identification and Documentation of
Critical Internal Accounting Controls
Jerry L. Turner, The University of Memphis
Continuous Assurance Using Text Mining
Glen Gray, California State University-Northridge and
Roger Debreceny, University of Hawaii
Privacy Issues
Marilyn Greenstein-Prosch, Arizona State University
The Role of XBRL on Enhanced Business Reporting
Dr. Enrique Bonson, University of Huelva and Virgina
Cortijo
Exposing Enterprise Data: Web Services, XBRL GL and Google
Can Bring It All Together
Gianluca Garbellotto, Iphix LLC
SEEK-INF: A Search Engine for Extracting Knowledge from
Industrial Filings and Beyond, XBRL
Rajendra P. Srivastava, University of Kansas
The Potential Impact of More Frequent Financial Reporting
and Assurance: User, Preparer & Auditor Assessments
Arnold Wright, Boston College, James Hunton, Bentley College, and
Sally Wright, University of Massachusetts
Boston
Transaction Objects, Control Objects, Control Tags and Tags
Dynamics
Miklos Vasarhelyi, Rutgers Business School
Optimizing Audit Agent Communities of Control Systems
Rob Nehmer, Oakland University
Continuity Equations: Further Developments
Alex Kogan, Rutgers Business School, and Jia Wu,
University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth