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Continuous Auditing Readiness in Cloud-Based Small Enterprises

Author(s) Joshua Onome Imoniana
Country United States
Abstract Cloud computing has enabled small enterprises to adopt accounting, payment, inventory, payroll, customer-management, and operational systems without maintaining extensive local information-technology infrastructure. Although this transition can improve accessibility and integration, it also changes the environment in which audit evidence is generated, retained, secured, and reviewed. Continuous auditing offers a potential response by enabling audit-related procedures and control evaluations to occur more frequently than conventional periodic examinations. However, the technical availability of cloud data does not automatically make an enterprise ready for continuous auditing. Readiness depends on structured audit trails, stable data interfaces, access-control discipline, automated control evidence, data quality, cybersecurity governance, exception-management procedures, and management capability.
The present study develops a simulation-based framework for examining continuous auditing readiness in cloud-based small enterprises. A synthetic analytical sample of 480 observations is distributed across four hypothetical maturity conditions: fragmented cloud controls, basic digitized controls, integrated cloud controls, and continuous-monitoring-enabled controls. Continuous auditing readiness represents the principal outcome, while data integration, audit-trail completeness, control automation, and cybersecurity and access readiness are examined as associated dimensions. Simulated mean readiness increases from 2.47 in the fragmented-control condition to 4.32 under continuous-monitoring-enabled controls.
A separate continuous simulation of 180 observations produces a positive association between cloud control maturity and continuous auditing readiness, r = .800. The study argues that cloud adoption should be distinguished from audit readiness: continuous auditing becomes feasible only when digital records are reliable, accessible, controlled, and capable of supporting repeatable automated tests.
Keywords continuous auditing; cloud accounting; small enterprises; audit readiness; internal controls; data analytics; cloud computing; continuous monitoring
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Published In Volume 6, Issue 2, March-April 2025
Published On 2025-03-03
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