Continuous Auditing has the potential to transform the existing audit paradigm from periodic reviews of a few
accounting transactions to a continuous review of all transactions, which thereby could vastly strengthen an
organization’s risk management and business processes. Although Continuous Auditing implementations are
occurring, their adoption is slower than expected.
With the goal of providing an empirical and methodological foundation for future Continuous Auditing systems
and possibly inspiring additional investigation into merging the Continuous Auditing and Emergency
Management streams of research, this paper provides several definitions of Continuous Auditing, suggests
possible architectures for these systems, lists some common implementation challenges and highlights a few
examples of how Emergency Management research could potentially overcome them.