Using Benford’s Law to detect Financial Fraud

Authors

  • نصيف جاسم الجبوري
  • صلاح هادي محمد

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33095/jeas.v18i68.991

Keywords:

عمليات الاحتيال المالي, financial fraud

Abstract

Fraud Includes acts involving the exercise of deception by multiple parties inside and outside companies in order to obtain economic benefits against the harm to those companies, as they are to commit fraud upon the availability of three factors which represented by the existence of opportunities, motivation, and rationalization. Fraud detecting require necessity of indications the possibility of its existence. Here, Benford’s law can play an important role in direct the light towards the possibility of the existence of financial fraud in the accounting records of the company, which provides the required effort and time for detect fraud and prevent it.

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Published

2012-12-01

Issue

Section

Accounting Researches

How to Cite

“Using Benford’s Law to detect Financial Fraud” (2012) Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences, 18(68), p. 420. doi:10.33095/jeas.v18i68.991.

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