Auditing: A Risk Based-Approach (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Karla M Johnstone, Audrey A. Gramling, Larry E. Rittenberg
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 9, Problem 41RQSC
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Introduction: The use of data analytics has been developing. It is mainly used in external financial statement auditing and in internal auditing. Data analytics has the potential to transform external auditing as it changed internal auditing.
To ascertain: The way of data analytics tools could be used in the audit of automated
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Auditing: A Risk Based-Approach (MindTap Course List)
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