Data Mining techniques for the detection of fraudulent financial statements

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 995-1003

  Kirkos, Efstathios ^a   Spathis, Charalambos ^b   Manolopoulos, Yannis ^b  

^a ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Auditing; Data Mining; Fraudulent financial statements; Greece; Management fraud

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FINANCE; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

AUDITING; FRAUDULENT FINANCIAL STATEMENTS; MANAGEMENT FRAUD;

DATA MINING;

EID: 33751432287     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2006.02.016     Document Type: Article

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