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Cohen Computer Consulting (under construction)

This is the web site of Eric E. Cohen, co-founder of XBRL and "chief nut" of XBRL's Global Ledger, and the past and future home of Cohen Computer Consulting. My primary technical interest is enabling the Seamless Audit Trail and empowering growing businesses with accounting and audit data standardization. I serve as an Expert to the ISO/PC 295 Audit Data Collection effort, and am an Accounting and Audit Domain Coordinator for UN/CEFACT. I also participate in national ISO/TC 307 Blockchain and Electronic Distributed Ledger mirror committees.

For training and consulting in emerging accounting and audit technology topics, I encourage you to contact me for how Cohen Computer Consulting can provide support for your organization to cope with and benefit from emerging accounting and audit technologies:

• Training
• Consulting
• Writing
• Research

• SEC XBRL Portal
• SBR Australia reducing compliance burden!
• Next XBRL International conference Paris
• ISO/PC 295 Audit Data Collection
• ISO/TC 307 Blockchain and Electronic Distributed Ledger Technologies

XML Quick Links

• Audit Data Standards
• Accounting Analytics
• Blockchain
• Continuous Audit, Monitoring and Assurance
• Data Level Assurance
• Distributed Ledgers
• XBRL
• XML Security (Encryption, Signature)

The life of a Jew in a Nazi labor camp, serving at the Academy of Science in the USSR, and starting from scratch in 1992 in Rochester, NY.

Other areas of current research:

Continuous Audit and Assurance;
Web Services - the potential of breaking down monolithic programs into interchangeable fragments for plug and play programming, and opening doors for continuous auditing;
Data level assurance - providing third party assurance on eDocuments and streamed data at both document/file and component levels and;
Authorization and security to make it possible: XML Signature, XML Encryption, XKMS and Web Services Security

CV and selective bibliography