Large scale detection of irregularities in accounting data

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 75-86

  Bay, Stephen ^a   Kumaraswamy, Krishna ^a   Anderle, Markus G ^a   Kumar, Rohit ^a   Steier, David M ^a  

^a PricewaterhouseCoopers USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTING DATA; AUDITING FIRM; AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS; LARGE SCALE DETECTION; SHERLOCK - PROTOTYPE SYSTEM;

DATA PRIVACY; DEMODULATION; ERRORS; NONBIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; RECORDS MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

DATA MINING;

EID: 34748843986     PISSN: 15504786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDM.2006.93     Document Type: Conference Paper

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