An ANN-based auditor decision support system using Benford's law

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 576-584

  Bhattacharya, Sukanto ^a   Xu, Dongming ^b   Kumar, Kuldeep ^c  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

ANNs; ARPs; Auditor decision support system; Benford's law; Genetic optimization

Indexed keywords

ANNS; ARPS; BENFORD'S LAW; DECISION SUPPORTS; GENETIC OPTIMIZATION;

CRIME; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; INFORMATION THEORY; NEURAL NETWORKS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 78651073836     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2010.08.011     Document Type: Article

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