Episode 13 | Ian Grigg on the Evolution of Trust, Triple Entry Accounting and a New Way of Audit

Earlier this year, I had read a collection of 7 articles on ‘a new way of auditing’ written by Ian in 2009 whereby he had proposed to ‘perform the check ourselves by relying on a community of volunteers without the need to appoint an external auditor’.

The inability of the auditors to spot the failures that led to the financial crisis had been challenged, and Ian questioned whether ‘audits are part of the problem rather than the solution’.

Ian Grigg is considered as one of the pioneers of financial cryptography.

His groundbreaking work for inventing the ‘Ricardian Contract’ has brought him acclaim and attention from all over the globe.

Ian is well known for having coined the term ‘Triple Entry Accounting’, where back in 2005 he proposed a new concept of having a third entry as a digitally signed receipt to avoid transaction frauds.

In this episode, we discuss;

• How technology can incentivize people to collaborate instead of cheating and;
• A new way of audit without the need to appoint an external auditor;
• Limitations of sampling audit
• The future of centralized audit providers;
• How TEA helps to prevent financial failures and frauds;
• His newly published book called the 'Identity Cycle';
• And much more.

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