Audit Technology Success Among Malaysian Public Sector Auditors: Key Insights & Future Directions
The new ways of doing business in the digital environment have implicated the current audit practices, specifically in financial audit and have directed the audit function into a new path. Auditors need to handle the changes caused by technologies (Yen, Huang, Li, & Hsiah, 2006) As such, this has led into the necessity of new audit procedures, techniques and tools to evaluate the control in order to mitigate the new business risk (Masli, Peters, & Richardson, 2010). Further, audit standards have clearly stated that the computer-based controls and computer-assisted audit techniques need to be conducted once audit clients have used advanced enterprise systems and depend broadly on Information Technology (IT) (Abdolmohammadi & Boss, 2009).
