The use of each oftlie continuous audit techniques has advantages
and disadvantages. Their selection and implementation depends,
to a large extent, on the complexity of an organization's computer
systems and applications, and the IS auditor's ability to understand
and evaluate the system with and without the use of continuous
audit techniques. In addition, IS auditors must recognize that
continuous audit techniques are not a cure for all control problems
and that the use ofthese techniques provides only limited assurance
that the information processing systems examined are operating as
they were intended to function.