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Shi, J, Ausloos, M and Zhu, T (2018)

Benford's law is the first significant digit and distribution distances for testing the reliability of financial reports in developing countries

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 492(1), pp. 878-888.

ISSN/ISBN: Not available at this time. DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2017.11.017



Abstract: We discuss a common suspicion about reported financial data, in 10 industrial sectors of the 6 so called “main developing countries” over the time interval [2000–2014]. These data are examined through Benford’s law first significant digit and through distribution distances tests.


Bibtex:
@Article{, author={Shi, Jing and Ausloos, Marcel and Zhu, Tingting}, title={{Benford’s law first significant digit and distribution distances for testing the reliability of financial reports in developing countries}}, journal={Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications}, year={2018}, volume={492}, number={C}, pages={878--888}, doi={10.1016/j.physa.2017.11.017}, url={https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/phsmap/v492y2018icp878-888.html} }


Reference Type: Journal Article

Subject Area(s): Accounting, Economics