Benford's law: applications for forensic accounting, auditing, and fraud detection

"A powerful new tool for all forensic accountants, or anyone who analyzes data that may have been altered. Benford's Law gives the expected patterns of the digits in the numbers in tabulated data such as town and city populations or Madoff's fictitious portfolio returns. Those digits,...

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Main Author: Nigrini, Mark John (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. [u.a.] Wiley c 2012
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