However to achieve this level of audit automation, human judgment would need to be totally replaced with a
Continuous Auditing system, which is a complex, costly and computationally intensive endeavor. Some
working in Emergency Management have suggested a hybrid approach that uses both Continuous Auditing and
human decision-making. This approach integrates Continuous Auditing’s detection and alerting functions with
the tracking of decisions and decision options for the situations that can be more effectively handled by human
judgment (Turoff, 2004). Turoff first recognized the potential that Emergency Management research could have
on Continuous Auditing. This paper focuses primarily on the implementation obstacles currently impeding
Continuous Auditing implementations and briefly provides a few examples of how Emergency Management
concepts could help overcome them.