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The Routledge Companion to Accounting Information Systems
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The Routledge Companion to Accounting Information Systems

by Erik Strauss, Martin Quinn
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
14h 1m
English
Routledge
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Accounting Information Systems outputs

XBRL, AI and in-memory technologies

Ting Sun

Introduction

The objective of this chapter is to explore the role of three cutting-edge technologies – XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language; including iXBRL), in-memory computing technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) – in data analytics for internal decision-making. These technologies are chosen as XBRL solves the issue of data preparation and integration and enhances data usefulness; in-memory computing enables real-time data processing; AI helps extract abstract patterns of data and provides guide for data prediction.

XBRL is a financial reporting markup language that provides the financial community with a standard approach to prepare, publish ...

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