Data mining technology is applied to fraud detection to establish the fraud detection model, describe the process of creating the fraud detection model, then establish data model with ID3 decision tree, and establish example of fraud detection model by using this model. As e-commerce sales continue to grow, the associated online fraud remains an attractive source of revenue for fraudsters. Thes...

Financial fraud is increasing significantly with the development of modern technology and the global superhighways of communication, resulting in the loss of billions of dollars worldwide each year. The companies and financial institution loose huge amounts due to fraud and fraudsters continuously try to find new rules and tactics to commit illegal actions. Thus, fraud detection systems have be...

In the last decade, high profile financial frauds committed by large companies in both developed and developing countries were discovered and reported. This study compares the performance of five popular statistical and machine learning models in detecting financial statement fraud. The research objects are companies which experienced both fraudulent and non-fraudulent financial statements betw...

The paper proposes a linguistics-based text mining approach to demonstrate the process of extracting financial concepts from the Security Exchange Commission (SEC) litigation releases (LR). The proposed approach presents the extracted information as a knowledge base to be used in market monitoring surveillance systems. Also, it facilitates users’ acquisition, maintenance and access to financial...

Why are auditors unable to detect fraudulent financial reporting in some audits? Should auditors be able to anticipate when fraud is likely to occur? Various studies have discussed not only the need for experience and supervision of auditors, but also the effect of decision models, and even expert systems, on fraud detection and the study of internal controls. This paper presents a discussion o...

This paper provides the theoretical review of the fraud risk characteristics, systematization of the existing fraud knowledge and the causes of fraud occurrence. Moreover, it determines the roles and the responsibilities of managers and auditors in the fraud risk assessments. In addition, risk factors relating to the misstatements arising from fraudulent financial reporting have been examined. ...

In the present age of scams, financial statement fraud represents enormous cost to our economy. The deliberate misstatement of numbers in the accounting books with the help of well planned scheme by an intelligent squad of knowledgeable perpetrators in order to deceive the capital market participants is termed as financial statement fraud. In order to reduce fraud risk which comprehends both de...