Patent ID: 8706773

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for distributing content pursuant to an audit-based process, comprising: (i) decomposing industry-specific sample collections of audit-related workpaper documents, authored by experts in the field of audit-based processes and annotated with directives regarding decomposition of audit-related workpaper documents into a plurality of individual content elements for inclusion in an industry-specific content title within a content library database, wherein said plurality of individual content elements include knowledge content elements, presentation content elements, and rule content elements, wherein the knowledge content elements define text-based intellectual property suitable for rule-driven inclusion within dynamically generated audit workpapers and associated contextual tips and guidance, wherein the presentation content elements define workpaper skeleton documents and associated visual elements suitable for rule-driven, runtime binding to knowledge content elements and user-supplied data within dynamically generated audit workpapers, and wherein the rule content elements define custom logic determining dynamic association of knowledge content elements, presentation content elements, and user-supplied data; (ii) distributing related collections of said content elements from content publishers to end user's content library database via industry-specific content packages, wherein said content elements are merged via the industry-specific content packages into said end user's content library database as industry-specific content titles; and (iii) using a computer to dynamically generate collections of dynamic workpapers from the user-supplied data and the individual content elements in the content library database, in accordance with at least one predetermined rule, wherein the dynamically generated workpapers are also dynamically updated in response to (i) changes to user-supplied data or (ii) receipt of subsequently published versions of the associated content elements.