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The Data Analytics Journey: Interactions Among Auditors, Managers, Regulation, and Technology*
Contemporary Accounting Research ( IF 3.2 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-17 , DOI: 10.1111/1911-3846.12680
Ashley A. Austin 1 , Tina D. Carpenter 2 , Margaret H. Christ 2 , Christy Nielson 3
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Data analytics is transforming our global markets and significantly impacting the financial reporting environment. We investigate how auditors, company managers, and regulation interact with data analytics and one another to affect the diffusion (i.e., development and spread) of data analytics throughout the financial reporting environment. We interview company managers and their audit partners, as well as additional stakeholders, including regulators. We interpret findings from our interviews using theory that highlights the importance of dynamic interactions between people and their environments, which include the prevailing rules (e.g., regulatory guidance). Our findings contribute to the accounting literature and practice by revealing three areas of conflict emerging from stakeholders' disparate preferences for data analytics. First, we uncover growing tensions between managers and audit partners regarding audit fees. Second, we find that managers and auditors believe the lack of accounting regulation specific to data analytics causes confusion and frustration. Finally, auditors report that they strategically leverage data analytics to provide clients with business-related insights. However, regulators voice concerns that this practice might impair auditor independence and reduce audit quality. These areas of conflict suggest a need to revisit key tensions surrounding the audit function in a contemporary context characterized with significant technological shift.

中文翻译:

数据分析之旅:审计师、经理、监管和技术之间的互动*

数据分析正在改变我们的全球市场并对财务报告环境产生重大影响。我们调查审计师、公司经理和监管机构如何与数据分析相互作用以及如何影响数据分析在整个财务报告环境中的传播(即发展和传播)。我们采访了公司经理及其审计合作伙伴,以及其他利益相关者,包括监管机构。我们使用强调人与其环境之间动态交互重要性的理论来解释我们的访谈结果,其中包括现行规则(例如,监管指南)。我们的发现通过揭示利益相关者对数据分析的不同偏好而产生的三个冲突领域,为会计文献和实践做出了贡献。第一的,我们发现管理人员和审计合作伙伴之间在审计费用方面日益紧张。其次,我们发现管理人员和审计师认为缺乏针对数据分析的会计法规会导致混乱和沮丧。最后,审计师报告说,他们战略性地利用数据分析为客户提供与业务相关的见解。然而,监管机构担心这种做法可能会损害审计师的独立性并降低审计质量。这些冲突领域表明,在以重大技术变革为特征的当代背景下,需要重新审视围绕审计职能的主要紧张局势。我们发现,管理人员和审计师认为,缺乏针对数据分析的会计法规会导致混乱和沮丧。最后,审计师报告说,他们战略性地利用数据分析为客户提供与业务相关的见解。然而,监管机构担心这种做法可能会损害审计师的独立性并降低审计质量。这些冲突领域表明,在以重大技术变革为特征的当代背景下,需要重新审视围绕审计职能的主要紧张局势。我们发现,管理人员和审计师认为,缺乏针对数据分析的会计法规会导致混乱和沮丧。最后,审计师报告说,他们战略性地利用数据分析为客户提供与业务相关的见解。然而,监管机构担心这种做法可能会损害审计师的独立性并降低审计质量。这些冲突领域表明,在以重大技术变革为特征的当代背景下,需要重新审视围绕审计职能的主要紧张局势。
更新日期:2021-04-17
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