Faster Please. Accounting Web reports that accounting firm KPMG is fuding a new research center to research and test continuous reporting and auditing techniques.

“While the field of continuous auditing was first proposed in 1990, research on the topic has been mainly conceptual up until now,” said Miklos Vasarhelyi, a Ph.D. at RARC and Director of the CAR-Lab. “The lab will undertake applied research in the field using real-life data from complex corporate information systems to test concepts and demonstrate working examples.”