Future study of artificial intelligence application in auditing: from the perspective of information science and technology

Artificial intelligence and its application in the audit of financial statements have had profound consequences on the objectives of the audit and the ways to achieve them. However; In the past, limited to the technologies available in this profession, the objectives of auditing financial statements as the only limited approach. With the emergence of artificial intelligence technologies, the objectives of auditing financial statements should be based on ensuring the reliability of accounting information rather than the compliance of accounting reports with the accepted principles of accounting standards. Auditing quality is an interesting research problem and is influenced by many factors such as the, Artificial Intelligence, of innovative audit tools. Professional skepticism plays a pivotal role in audit quality. The research method is based on the applied objective, based on descriptive-survey data collection and based on the data type, and the future-making drivers affecting auditing in the field of science and information technology in the next 15 years using expert panel methods, open questionnaire, interview and Delphi Fazi were identified in 2024. To select experts from university professors and specialists in Iran, judgmental and snowball sampling methods were used and sampling continued until theoretical saturation. The results showed that the status of audit systems in Iran is not favorable, and according to the experts, the development of expert systems and intelligent audit systems will be the most important driving forces, and it indicates that in the future, technology will penetrate expert audit systems and audit and accounting systems They will be smart.