Fraudulent financial reporting detection and business failure prediction models: A comparison

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 650-662

  Liou, Fen May ^a  

^a YUANPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Business failures; Cluster analysis; Financial reporting; Fraud; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849160249     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686900810890625     Document Type: Article

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