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The objective of financial reporting is to provide information that is useful to management andstakeholders for resource allocation decisions (FASB, 2006). For financial information to be useful, itshould be timely and free from material errors, omissions, and fraud. In the real time economy(Economist, 2002; Vasarhelyi, Teeter, & Krahel, 2010), timely and reliable financial information is criticalfor day to day business decisions regarding strategic planning, raising capital, credit decisions, andsupplier or vendor partnerships. Advances in accounting information systems such as the advent ofenterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have enabled the generation of real time financialinformation. However, the practice of traditional auditing has not kept pace with the real timeeconomy, and the state of the art of assurance has lagged. The lack of support for real time assurancemay be primarily attributed to the manual nature of traditional audit procedures. Manual auditprocedures are labor and time intensive. These constraints limit audit frequency to an annualoccurrence. As a result, management and stakeholder reliance on real time financial information canlead to adverse resource allocation decisions.
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