Unsupervised neural networks approach for understanding fraudulent financial reporting

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 224-244

  Huang, Shin Ying ^a   Tsaih, Rua Huan ^a   Lin, Wan Ying ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Financial reporting; Financial statements; Fraudulent financial reporting; Growing hierarchical self organizing map; Knowledge extraction; Knowledge management; Neural nets

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL REPORTING; FINANCIAL STATEMENTS; FRAUDULENT FINANCIAL REPORTING; GROWING HIERARCHICAL SELF-ORGANIZING MAPS; KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION; NEURAL NET;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; NEURAL NETWORKS; PESTICIDE EFFECTS; RATING; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

FINANCE;

EID: 84863286881     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02635571211204272     Document Type: Article

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