computer assisted audit techniques

computer assisted audit techniques
CAATs Steps taken to gather *audit evidence from and by means of computer software programs. Computer assisted audit techniques (CAATs) can be used for both Compliance and Substantive testing, and they can be applied to existing data and *test data. The latter can be created and evaluated against expected outcomes, in order to test the processing accuracy of computerized systems.

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