Miklos Vasarhelyi

KPMG Distinguished Professor of Accounting Information Systems and Director of Rutgers Accounting Research Center and Continuous Auditing & Reporting Lab (CAR Lab)

Area of expertise

Accounting & Information Systems

973-353-5002 miklosv@andromeda.rutgers.edu Curriculum Vitae

Professor Miklos A. Vasarhelyi is the KPMG Distinguished Professor of Accounting Information Systems and serves as Director of the Rutgers Accounting Research Center (RARC) & Continuous Auditing & Reporting Lab (CAR Lab).

He is credited with developing the original continuous audit application and is the leading researcher in this field. At Rutgers Business School, Professor Vasarhelyi heads the Continuous Auditing and Reporting Laboratory, which works on projects for such leading companies as Siemens, KPMG, Procter & Gamble, AICPA, CA Technologies and Brazil’s Itau-Unibanco. Also, he leads the RADAR (Rutgers AICPA Data Analytics Research Initiative) project supported by the 8 leading CPA firms, AICPA, and CPA Canada.

Vasarhelyi, who received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from UCLA, has published more than 200 journal articles, 20 books, and directed over 40 Ph.D. theses. He is the editor of the Artificial Intelligence in Accounting and Auditing series and the Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting.

The professor also has taught executive programs to many large international organizations, including GE, J&J, Eli Lilly, Baxter, ADL, Volvo, Siemens, Chase Bank, and AT&T.

He received his MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree in economics and electrical engineering from the State University of Guanabara and the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He taught at USC, Columbia and worked at the Bell Laboratories.

Professor Vasarhelyi was chosen as the Outstanding Accounting Educator by the AAA in 2015 and received ISACA’s Wasserman Award among many distinctions.

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Academic degrees

Ph.D., University of California; Accounting Information Systems

Governmental accounting conference examines pressing issues in the profession

Wednesday, January 05, 2022

The Future of Business Education is Stackable

Friday, November 19, 2021

International conference addresses contemporary issues in finance

Sunday, January 10, 2021

Graduate students from Brazil visit Rutgers to learn how America does business

Monday, February 10, 2020

Annual Governmental Accounting & Auditing Update Conference draws professionals from around the state

Friday, January 25, 2019

Media Mentions

The CPA Journal, Smart Contracts, AI, and the Future of Asset Valuation, By Jun Dai, Jumi Kim, Jay A. Soled, JD, LLM and Miklos A. Vasarhelyi, PhD

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

NJBIZ, Accounting Power 50, Miklos A. Vasarhelyi

Monday, June 28, 2021

NJBIZ, The 2020 Accounting Power 50, Miklos A. Vasarhelyi

Monday, July 20, 2020

Accounting Web, Adding Robotic Process Automation to the Accounting Curriculum, Kevin Moffitt, Andrea Rozario, and Miklos Vasarhelyi

Friday, March 13, 2020

Berdon, LLCBerdon and Rutgers Team to Enhance the Efficiency of Real Estate Auditing, Miklos Vasarhely

Tuesday, November 05, 2019

Publications

Publications with PhD Students and Alumni:

Artificial Intelligence in Accounting and Auditing: International Prospectives, Vol. VI, (with E. Bonson and R. Hoitash), Markus Wiener Publishers, 2005, part of the Rutgers Accounting Series.

"An Empirial Study of Net Assets Disclosure, Inflation Accounting Revisited", (with David,Yang, C.Liu, and K Shima,) International Journal of Business, 10(4), 2005

"XBRL: A New Tool For Electronic Financial Reporting", (with Jia Wu), Business Intelligence Techniques: A Perspective from Accounting and Finance, 2004, pp. 73-92.

"Industrial Managemnt and Data Systems: A Note on the Using of Accounting Databases", (with David Yang and Caixing Liu), Industrial Managemnt & Data Systems, Vol. 103, No. 3, 2003, pp. 204-210.

"The Optimal Frequency of Demand-monitoring and Real Time Pricing in On-line Transactions," (with Hui Du and Qiong Wang), The New Review of Applied Expert Systems, Volume 7, 2001, pp.117-128.

"The Ex-ante and Ex-post Relationships Between Bond Ratings and SFAS 33 Measures", (with David Yang), International Journal of Management Theory and Practices, Vol.1, No.1, Aug. 2000.

"Intelligent Software Agents in Acounting:an Evolving Scenario," (with Rani Hoitash) in The Evolving Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems: An International View, Volume 6, (M.A. Vasarhelyi and A. Kogan Eds.) Markus Wiener Publishing, Inc.,2000.

"Qualitative Corporate Dashboards for Corporate Monitoring", (with Peng Jia), IS Audit and Control Journal, Fall 1999, Volume 5, pp.45-48.

"Adaptation and Use of Reliability Concepts in Internal Control Evaluation," (with B. N. Srinidhi), Advances in Accounting, supplement 1, 1989.

"Financial Accounting Database: Methodological Implications of Using the Compustat and Value Line Database," (with David Yang), May, 1988

"Trends in the Evolution of Scholarly Accounting Thought: A Quantitative Examination," (with D. H. Bao and J. Berk), The Accounting Historians Journal, 1988.

"Technological Change and Management Information Systems" (with Yang, D. C.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Systems Sciences, Hawaii, 1988.

"Selecting Financial Accounting Databases for Management Information Systems," (with Yang, D. C.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Systems Sciences, Hawaii, 1987.

"Empirical Characteristics of Debenture Conversions: The Issue of Equivalency", (with J. B. Knauf), Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Vol. 2 (new series), # 1, Winter 1987.

"Selecting Financial Accounting Databases for Management Information Systems," (with Yang, D. C.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Systems Sciences, Hawaii, 1987.

"Financial Accounting Databases: Issues for MIS Design," (with Yang, D. C.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Systems Sciences, Hawaii, 1986.

"Auditor Judgment Concerning Establishment of Substantive Tests Based On Internal Control Reliability," (with B. N. Srinidhi), Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Spring 1986.

"A Stochastic Model of Professional Accountant Turnover," (with B. B. Bao & D. H. Bao), Accounting, Organizations and Society, Volume 10, # 4, 1985.

"FASB Statement 33 Data Bank: User's Manual," (with T. Verghese, A. Phillips, and B. Welch), FASB, Stamford, Conn., 1981 (Version IV, 1985).

"Documentation of FASB Statement 33 Data Bank Project," (with T. Verghese, A. Phillips, and B. Welch), FASB, Stamford, Conn., 1981 (Version II, 1983).

"FASB Statement 36 Data Bank: User's Manual," (with David C. H. Yang), March 1982 (Version II, 1983).

"Editores de texto: Uma Experiencia em APL" (with D. Schwabe), Proceedings of the Brazilian NationalData Processing Meeting, September, 1974. Internet Column for the ISACA journal (with A. Kogan and E. Sudit), 1) the Rutgers Accounting Web, and 2) privacy and security over the Internet.

"TREAT System Manual," (with W. Thomas Lin, Robert Benkaim, and Luis Carlos Duclos).

"TREAT Instructor's Manual," (with W. Thomas Lin and Ian Daley).

A.Kogan. M.Alles. M.Vasarhelyi. J.Wu. Continuity Equations in Continuous Assurance. Presented at AAA annual meeting. Orlando, 2004.

Dissertations Supervised

Name: Lee, Heejae
Graduation Date: 2023/October

Name: Wang, Xinxin
Graduation Date: 2023/May

Name: Kim, Jumi
Graduation Date: 2023/May

Name: Duan, Huijue
Graduation Date: 2022/October

Name: Wang, Wenru
Graduation Date: 2022/October

Name: Zhang, Lu
Graduation Date: 2022/October

Name: Wu, Chengzhang
Graduation Date: 2022/May

Name: Zhang, Chanyuan
Graduation Date: 2022/May

Name: Hsieh, Sheng-Feng
Graduation Date: 2021/May

Name: Cheong, Arion
Graduation Date: 2021/May

Name: Zhou, Jiahua
Graduation Date: 2020/October

Name: Alzamil, Zamil
Graduation Date: 2019/May

Name: Rozario, Andrea
Graduation Date: 2019/May

Name: Liu, Yue
Graduation Date: 2019/May

Name: Alrafei, Abdulrahman
Graduation Date: 2019/May

Name: Li, Qiao
Graduation Date: 2019/Jan

Name: Huang, Feiqi
Graduation Date: 2019/Jan

Name: Chiu, Tiffany
Graduation Date: 2018/May
Thesis Title: Exploring New Audit Evidence: The Application of Process Mining in Auditing

Name: Sun, Ting
Graduation Date: 2018/May
Thesis Title: Deep Learning Applications to Audit Decision Making

Name: Li, He
Graduation Date: 2017/October
Thesis Title: Three Essays on Cybersecurity-Related Issues

Name: Dai, Jun
Graduation Date: 2017/October
Thesis Title: A New Vision of Auditing: Audit Apps

Name: Appelbaum, Deniz
Graduation Date: 2017/May
Thesis Title: Public Auditing, Analytics, and Big Data in the Modern Economy

Name: Moharram, Basma
Graduation Date: 2016/October
Thesis Title: New Trends in Auditing: Application of Life/Disability Insurance

Name: Arisandi, Desi
Graduation Date: 2016/May
Thesis Title: The Implimentation of Data Analytics in the Governmental and Not-for-Profit Sector

Name: Kozlowski, Stephen
Graduation Date: 2016/May
Thesis Title: A Vision of an ENHanced ANalytic Constituent Environment: ENHANCE

Name: Yoon, Kyunghee
Graduation Date: 2016/May
Thesis Title: Three Essays on Unorthodox Audit Evidence

Name: Moon, Dae Hyun
Graduation Date: 2016/January
Thesis Title: Continuous Risk Monitoring and Assessment: CRMA

Name: Alawadhi, Abdullah
Graduation Date: 2015/May
Thesis Title: The Application of Data Visualization in Auditing

Name: Liu, Qi
Graduation Date: 2014/October
Thesis Title: The Application of Exploratory Data Analysis in Auditing

Name: Teeter, Ryan
Graduation Date: 2014/May
Thesis Title: Essays on the Enhanced Audit

Name: Chiu, Victoria
Graduation Date: 2013/October
Thesis Title: The Development and Intellectual Structure of Accounting Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

Name: Kuenkaikaew, Siripan
Graduation Date: 2013/October
Thesis Title: Predictive Audit Analytics: Evolving to a New Era

Name: Lombardi, Danielle
Graduation Date: 2012/October
Thesis Title: Using an Expert System to Debias Auditor Judgment: An Experimental Study

Name: Krahel, John Peter
Graduation Date: 2012/October
Thesis Title: On the Formalization of Accounting Standards

Name: Thiprungsri, Sutapat
Graduation Date: 2012/January
Thesis Title: Cluster Analysis for Anomaly Detection in Accounting Data

Name: Chakraborty, Vasundhara
Graduation Date: 2011/October
Thesis Title: Three Essays on Using Text Analytic Techniques for Accounting Research

Name: Kim, Yong Bum
Graduation Date: 2011/October
Thesis Title: Continuous Monitoring: Macro- and Micro-level Control

Name: Romero, Silvia
Graduation Date: 2008/October
Thesis Title: Testing Human Factor Tailored Information Reports for Individuals with Different Cognitive Characteristics

Name: Wu, Jia
Graduation Date: 2006/October
Thesis Title: Test of Details and Analytical Procedures in Continuous Auditing

Name: Badua, Francisco
Graduation Date: 2005/October
Thesis Title: Pondering Paradigms: Tracing the Development of Accounting Thought with Taxonomic and Citation Analysis

Name: Jiang, Wei
Graduation Date: 2005/May
Thesis Title: Intelligent Day Trading Agent - A Natural Language Processing Approach to Financial Information Analysis

Name: Cong, Yu
Graduation Date: 2004/October
Thesis Title: The Relationship Between The Income Statement Presentation Format and the Company Characteristics: an Exploratory Study on the Comparability of the Financial Statement Presentation Format

Name: Hoitash, Ran
Graduation Date: 2003/October
Thesis Title: Information Transfer in Analytical Procedures: A Simulated Industry Knowledge-Management Approach

Name: Du, Hui
Graduation Date: 2002/May
Thesis Title: Real Time Demand - Monitoring and Pricing for Online Transactions

Name: Jones, Richard
Graduation Date: 2001/January
Thesis Title: An Inquiry into the Effects of Audit Staff Regulating Mechanisms on Auditor Task Related Processing in a Risk Assessment Decision

Name: Giles, Jill
Graduation Date: 1998/October
Thesis Title: Evidence on the Relation Between Audit Committee Characteristics and the Quality of Financial Reporting

Name: Palas, Rimona
Graduation Date: 1998/May
Thesis Title: The Expectation Gap as Witnessed in the Courtroom

Name: Natovich, Joseph
Graduation Date: 1996/May
Thesis Title: Reasoning About Internal Controls and Fraud: The A1 Planning Approach to Modeling the Business Process

Name: Russo, Joseph
Graduation Date: 1994/January
Thesis Title: An Investigation of Auditor Problem Solving Behavior in an Unfamiliar Task Situation

Name: Qureshi, Anique
Graduation Date: 1993/October
Thesis Title: An Investigation of Auditor Judgement in the Evaluation of Contingent Legal Liabilities

Name: Khalifa, Zakaa
Graduation Date: 1992/May
Thesis Title: The Impact of the Financial Condition of the Firm on Auditors' Materiality/Disclosure Judgments: An Experimental Study

Early Summer Research Projects of PhD Students:

Name: Udi Hoitash
Project Title: Detecting Patterns in Board of Directors across Companies Using Network Analysis

Date: Summer 2005

Abstract: This paper describes the use of network analysis for detecting patterns among board of director members of different companies. The use of network analysis provides a platform for empirical testing of theories that could not be tested using conventional methodologies, or could be tested but needed manually coding of the data. We offer six different models that use network modeling and analysis to test different theories. We also provide some preliminary results of running those models. More specifically using network analysis we challenge the traditional definition of an independent outside board member by offering supplemental indicators to the level of the independence of the board. Those indicators measure the level of "familiarity" between senior executives and a board member and level of familiarity and connection between "independent" board members. We can also test four more theories. The theory of social cohesion specifies that board members are a close elite group which nominates one another. The theory of collusion stipulates that interlocks using board members between competitors provide a means of restricting competition. According to resource dependency theory, interlocks using board members is due to dependence on other companies for resources and cooperation. Bank control theory applies the same logic used by resource dependency theory, except that capital is a key resource that all firms must have.