README.md

---
pretty_name: FinancialAuditBench
license: mit
language:
- en
tags:
- benchmark
- financial-audit
- agents
- evaluation
configs:
- config_name: completion
  default: true
  data_files:
  - split: test
    path: data/completion.parquet
- config_name: review
  data_files:
  - split: test
    path: data/review.parquet
---

# FinancialAuditBench

[Code](https://github.com/modus-audit/financial-audit-bench) · [Trajectories](https://huggingface.co/datasets/modusaudit/FinancialAuditBench-Trajectories)

FinancialAuditBench evaluates AI agents on financial statement audit tasks. It contains
**90 tasks across 6 synthetic audit engagements** in manufacturing and staffing services.
Agents use supporting documents to complete or review spreadsheet workpapers.

## Task settings

| Configuration | Tasks | Starting workpaper | Goal |
| --- | ---: | --- | --- |
| `completion` | 45 | Blank template | Perform the specified procedures and document findings. |
| `review` | 45 | Completed model workpaper | Review the workpaper and correct errors. |

Each configuration has a `test` split with one row per task. Review tasks correspond to
completion tasks and use the same supporting binder. Select either configuration in the
viewer’s subset dropdown.

## Getting started

Install `datasets` and `huggingface_hub`. While the dataset is private, sign in with
`hf auth login` using an account with access.

```python
from datasets import load_dataset
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download

# Download the task tables, workbooks, and supporting documents.
data_dir = snapshot_download(
    "modusaudit/FinancialAuditBench",
    repo_type="dataset",
    revision="tasks-2026-09-24",
    local_dir="benchmark_tasks",
    allow_patterns=["README.md", "data/**", "tasks/**", "review_tasks/**", "inputs/**"],
)

# Choose "completion" or "review".
tasks = load_dataset(data_dir, "completion", split="test")
print(tasks[0]["instruction"])
```

## Dataset structure

- `tasks/`: completion instructions, blank workbooks, task configurations, and rubrics.
- `review_tasks/`: review instructions, completed starting workbooks, task configurations, rubrics, and blank grading templates.
- `inputs/`: supporting documents shared by tasks from the same engagement.
- `data/`: completion and review task tables in Parquet format.

Each row includes `task_id`, `base_task_id`, `binder_id`, `industry`, `workpaper`, and
`instruction`, together with links and relative paths to its starting workbook, binder,
and rubric. `base_task_id` connects each review task to its completion task.

See the [benchmark code](https://github.com/modus-audit/financial-audit-bench#run)
for setup, execution, and grading instructions.

## Citation

To reference this dataset release:

```bibtex
@misc{huang2026financialauditbenchbenchmarkconstructiondifferential,
      title={FinancialAuditBench: Benchmark Construction under Differential Privacy Using Real-World Priors}, 
      author={Jerry Huang and Sarvesh Babu and Matt Van Buren and Alexander Wang and Pranav Pillai and Arush Jain and James P. Burton and Julia Hockenmaier},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2609.32835},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.AI},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.32835}, 
}
```

## License

[MIT License](LICENSE).