Identification of fraudulent financial statements using linguistic credibility analysis

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 585-594

  Humpherys, Sean L ^a   Moffitt, Kevin C ^a   Burns, Mary B ^a   Burgoon, Judee K ^a   Felix, William F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Deception; Financial fraud; Fraud risk; SAS 99; Text mining

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; DECEPTION; FINANCIAL FRAUD; FRAUD RISK; SAS 99; TEXT MINING;

FINANCE; LINGUISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEXT PROCESSING;

CRIME;

EID: 78651081431     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2010.08.009     Document Type: Article

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