Predicting business failure under the existence of fraudulent financial reporting

International Journal of Accounting & Information Management

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 74-86

  Liou, Fen May ^a   Yang, Chien Hui ^a  

^a YUANPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Business failures; Financial reporting; Fraud; Neural nets

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952799630     PISSN: 18347649     EISSN: 17589037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/18347640810887771     Document Type: Article

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