Internal Auditing 27(3), pp. 24-29.
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Abstract: Accountants, especially internal auditors, external auditors, and forensic accountants, are often called upon to help in efforts to detect and prevent fraud. A variety of methods have been developed to assist in fraud detection and prevention. This article describes a fraud-detection strategy based on Benford’s Law. Benford’s Law analysis is a mathematical technique for identifying irregular patterns in data, which might represent red flags that indicate fraudulent activity or material errors. By using the Benford Analysis Workbook that is described in this paper (and available online), internal auditors, external auditors, forensic accountants, and others can readily perform this effective test to help identify possible fraud- or error-infested accounts.
Bibtex:
@article{,
author = {Stambaugh, Clyde and Manuel A. Tipgos and Floyd Carpenter and Murphy Smith},
title = {Using Benford Analysis to Detect Fraud},
year = {2012},
journal = {Internal Auditing},
volume = {27},
number = {3},
pages = {24--29},
url = {https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2111653},
}
Reference Type: Journal Article
Subject Area(s): Accounting