Benford's Law

by Joseph T. Wells, Mark Nigrini, Mark J. Nigrini

Book Overview

A powerful new tool for all forensic accountants, or anyone who analyzes data that may have been altered

Benford's Law gives the expected patterns of the digits in the numbers in tabulated data such as town and city populations or Madoff's fictitious portfolio returns. Those digits, in unaltered data, will not occur in equal proportions; there is a large bias towards the lower digits, so much so that nearly one-half of all numbers are expected...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118152859
• ISBN13: 9781118152850
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.2" x 10.0"