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Introduction
This is a Continuously Expanding Information Repository Covering the Building Blocks of the Auditchain Protocol: a Decentralized Accounting, Financial Reporting, Audit and Analysis Virtual Machine.
Overview
Auditchain is developing the world's first decentralized accounting, financial reporting, audit and analysis virtual machine that automates and provides proof of assurance on the world's financial and business information. 
The project is designed to achieve two main overarching objectives: (i) motivating and incentivizing the institution of accountancy to contribute to the virtual machine, and (ii) moving and transforming the profession toward complete automation with proof of assurance as the result.
So how do we do this? We propose "perfecting" the allocation of royalties between curators of accounting logic and validators who audit and prove that the logic works. As the network populates with more and more logical rules, accounting, audit, financial reporting and analysis become more automated. This becomes the basis of a completely automated virtual machine for accounting, audit, financial reporting and analysis. 
So why does the institution of accountancy need a virtual machine, you ask? So the accountants can get a life instead of performing manual tasks. They can annuitize their income stream instead of charging by the hour. They are issued non-fungible tokens "NFT" upon logic validation and get paid AUDT every time their logic is used. The validator who audits the logic also gets paid AUDT when the logic is used. Anyone can curate logic. You don't have to be an accountant but you MUST understand accounting logic. 
A virtual machine is also needed for the same reason Ethereum needs a virtual machine: to define the rules for computing a new valid state. The difference between Ethereum and Auditchain is that Auditchain is a layer 2 protocol that uses computers running its client; which we lovingly call Pacioli, to define machine readable declarative logical rules, as opposed to imperative logic, to compute and validate a valid financial state for each economic entity based on the reporting style and reporting scheme of each economic entity. 
Since each economic entity is unique, the data and logic sets are diverse and complex and therefore require the declarative constraints to compute and validate its financial state. The presentation of the financial state of an economic entity is a logical system and the logical system is machine readable. Machine readability is a key to bi-directional declarative logic and data interchange. 
In the European Union, machine readable, as well as human readable data and logic is now within the scope of an audit engagement. Soon, machine readable data and logic will be within audit scope in other parts of the world.  Since auditors of financial statements rely on an economic entity's controls over financial reporting to help them gain confidence in the data, it has become critical that those controls be audited under a special engagement: ISAE 3402. On the Auditchain Protocol, the NFTs are issued to curators following the validation of each control by a plurality of auditors under the standards of ISAE 3402.
As the world's accountants and professionals earn more AUDT by contributing more and more accounting logic, the financial reports (logical systems) governed by that logic become more and more precise. The more precise the logical system is, the more reliable they become. The more reliable they become, the more they can be used to predict and estimate future outcomes on a micro and macroeconomic level.  
Sounds cool right? Its gets better. Instead of working for years accumulating capital in the capital accounts of professional services firms, accountants and professionals can now build a portfolio of logic NFTs that they can sell one day. Ok NOW accounting just became the sexiest profession on the planet.
Accounting, audit and financial reporting are complicated subject matters and are sometimes difficult to articulate. They are even more difficult from a technical implementation perspective. We are working really hard to make the profession sexy. Wherever and whenever we can, we will attempt speak plain English when discussing these matters and we will refer to our GitHub when describing technical functionality of the protocol where appropriate. 
We also hope to add a sense of humor as well as a sense of humanity. Please be sure to join our Discord server. We will stage periodic live discussions on the project and also the usual crypto banter.
Acknowledgements 
This knowledge base is the basis of an ecosystem that we hope will incentivize and motivate the world's CPAs, Chartered Accountants, CFOs, Controllers and CFAs to contribute to the virtual machine and move the profession toward complete automation and true transformation.  
Before we begin, we wish to recognize some of the folks who have made significant contributions to the institution of accountancy, this project, and specifically, to this knowledge base. 
Digital financial reporting is a relatively new science. Believe it or not, modern financial reporting and Bitcoin are relatively the same age. Just before Satoshi Nakamoto was launching Bitcoin in 2008 and 2009, Charles Hoffman, a CPA from Tacoma, Washington in the USA was cooperating with a few US regulatory agencies to launch a new syntax for communicating accounting and financial reporting data in a machine readable way: XBRL, "eXtensible Business Reporting Language". XBRL is now a global standard in over 50 jurisdictions for financial and business reporting.
We wish to recognize Charlie for his significant contribution to this knowledge base and for his service as Product Manager for Auditchain. It is Charlie's work that has been at the center of the financial reporting world for public company financial reporting. 
As we move forward, it is our goal and the goal of the DCARPE Alliance Association to decentralize and automate the science of accounting, audit, analysis and financial reporting as well as educate, motivate and incentivize business professionals to join us on the journey toward transformation.  
We also wish to thank the following individuals who have made significant contributions to Auditchain over the years and continue to contribute to this project:
Scott Price, CPA, CISA, CIA - Founder and CEO of Align. Scott received the first call four years ago after that eureka moment and became the first member of the DCARPE Alliance Association.
Andrew Noble, PNA BBus - Founder of LodgeIT
Christian Dreyer, CFA - Board Member of XBRL Switzerland and former CEO of CFA Society Switzerland
Bogdan Fiedur - Lead Blockchain Engineer, Auditchain Labs AG
Chris Jastrzebski - Front End UX/UI, Auditchain Labs AG
Stuart Haber PhD. - Former Chief Scientist, Auditchain and Co-inventor of the first chain of blocks. Cited three times with Scott Stornetta in the Bitcoin Whitepaper. Could be the real Satoshi.
Eric Cohen, CPA - Co-founder XBRL
To all who have financially supported this project and stuck it out through thick and thin. Well...more thin than thick. We are humbled by your patience and have been working feverishly to deliver true disruption.    
We especially want to thank our detractors. You know who you are. Without you, we would never have mustered the determination to win!
We will be constantly updating this repository so be sure to return to see our progress. If you are a CPA, Chartered Accountant, CFO, Controller or a CFA, register as an actor on the network. This volume will become your new best friend.   
For product, technical or emotional support, please join our Discord server. 
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