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Benford's law states that the frequency of first significant digit in certain samples decreases as those digits increase. This law is used in accounting to find rounding behavior. Several studies provided evidence that firms may round up earnings when they are just below reference points denoted...
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This paper focuses on fraud detection in surveys using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data as an example for testing newly methods proposed here. A statistical theorem referred to as Benford's Law states that in many sets of numerical data, the significant digits are not uniformly distributed, as...
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Das Vertrauen in die Aussagekraft der Abschlussprüfungen wurde in den letzten Jahren durch eine Vielzahl von Bilanzskandalen erschüttert. Um Fälschungen und Missbrauch leichter und effizienter bekämpfen zu können und den technischen Entwicklungen Rechnung zu tragen, wird bereits seit...
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