This theme issue of the Journal of Information Systems (JIS) is the result of an ambitious attempt by the Accounting Information Systems (AIS) Section of the American Accounting Association (AAA) to invigorate accounting information systems research. Through a unique conference that included financial support by the AICPA and CaseWare Analytics, dedicated authors and reviewers, and vision by the AIS Section—JIS Senior Editors Mary Curtis and Roger Debreceny in particular—we have put together an interesting set of articles around the topic of information technology (IT) audit. The purpose of this introduction is to provide a brief discussion of the innovations attempted and lessons learned from this process. We defer discussion about the topic of IT audit to the articles, including the overview article by Dzuranin and Mălăescu (2016), in this issue.
In designing the conference and the resulting special issue, the AIS Section noted two areas where...
