In 2012, the AICPA published its first Audit Data Standards – agreements on how accounting software could exchange their data with write-up, analytics, visualization and audit software. This was the latest in a series of published standards to simplify exchanging reliable and reusable data. With the growth of interest in advanced audit data analytics, artificial intelligence-based bookkeeping, accounting and audit, Internet of Things (IoT) and remote data entry and Blockchain-based audit trails, standardized audit evidence can streamline all of these processes.