A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Artificial neural network assistant (ANNA) for continuous auditing and monitoring of financial data




AuthorsKoskivaara Eija, Back Barbro

PublisherAmerican Accounting Association

Publication year2007

JournalJournal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting

Volume4

Issue1

First page 29

Last page45

eISSN1558-7940

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2308/jeta.2007.4.1.29


Abstract

This paper presents the development and applications of ANNA—Artificial Neural Network Assistant (ANNA) for continuous auditing and monitoring of financial data. The prototype presented here provides automatically six types of expectation values for account values and compares them to the actual values. In this study, ANNA is used for analyzing monthly account values. ANNA's predictions or account expectations are based on function approximation (modeling) capability from the previous years' monthly account values. ANNA uses a flexible one‐step‐ahead prediction model. The results are illustrated both by a graph on the computer screen and in the tables. The evaluation of results show that artificial neural networks technology is competitive compared to other methods used in this study.



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