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Forensic Accounting Using the Benford Formula

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Benford’s Law provides a data analysis method that can help alert CPAs to possible errors, potential fraud, manipulative biases, costly processing inefficiencies, or other irregularities.

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Boffa, J. (2023). Forensic Accounting Using the Benford Formula. In: AI Assisted Business Analytics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40821-2_5

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