Graduate School Theses and Dissertations Graduate School 6-1-2008 Detecting financial statement fraud: Three essays on fraud predictors‚ multi-classifier combination and fraud detection using data mining Johan L. Perols University of South Florida Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd Part of the American Studies Commons Scholar Commons Citation Perols‚ Johan L.‚ "Detecting financial statement fraud: Three essays on fraud predictors‚ multi-classifier combination and
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Financial Statement Analysis MBA 6150 Financial Statement Analysis – Verizon Communications Abstract The process of developing financial statements for a business is to provide supporting documentation to what has been reported as annual or quarterly income. Within the financial statement analysis strengths and weaknesses are identified through the comparison of data from the balance sheet. There are many different ways to interpret the data that is utilized for the analysis; those
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be helping us understand financial statement analysis in a much broader way. It will also help us understand the implications of financial statement analysis to the management. This report will contribute additional knowledge on how to analyze the financial position of a company to determine if it is earning or losing. II. OBJECTIVES 1. Know and explain the various ways financial statements are analyzed. 2. Know and explain the objectives of financial statement analyses. 3. Know
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction…………………………………………………………………………….....1 1.1 Relationship between Holding/parent company- subsidiary………………………….2 2.1 Consolidated Financial Statement…………………………………………………….4 3.1 The concept of Goodwill……………………………………………………………...5 3.1.1 Computation of Goodwill…………………………………………………………...6 3.1.2 Computation of negative Goodwill………………………………………………...7 4.1 The recommendation of the IASB……………………………………………………8 5.1 IFRS 36 Impairment of Assets………………………………………………………..9 6.1 IFRS
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Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory Vol. 30‚ No. 2 May 2011 pp. 19–50 American Accounting Association DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-50009 Financial Statement Fraud Detection: An Analysis of Statistical and Machine Learning Algorithms Johan Perols SUMMARY: This study compares the performance of six popular statistical and machine learning models in detecting financial statement fraud under different assumptions of misclassification costs and ratios of fraud firms to nonfraud firms. The results show‚ somewhat
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parties that may ultimately rely on the client’s financial statements? Should auditors insist that audit engagement letters identify the third parties to whom the client intends to distribute the audited financial statements? Would this practice eliminate auditors’ legal liability to nonprivity parties not mentioned in engagement letters? During an audit it is the auditors responsibility to give their opinion on a company’s financial statements to its shareholders. However‚ the main purpose of
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Financial Statements are described as the language of business. These statements tell the condition and performance of a business historically‚ currently and prospectively. The main objective is to provide information about financial position‚ financial performance and cash flows of an entity used in making economic decisions. ELEMENTS OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Financial Statements portray the financial effects of transactions and other events by grouping them into broad classes according to their
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The analysis of financial information refers to the process of the critical examination of the financial information contained in the financial statements in order to understand and make the decisions regarding the operations of the firm. There are four kinds of analysis namely; external analysis‚ internal analysis‚ horizontal analysis and vertical analysis. The external analysis is done by outsiders who do not have access to the detailed internal accounting records of the business firm. When it
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Material Financial Statement Review What is the net income for the current fiscal year? Is it up or down from the prior year? Why would this information be important to investors? For FY15 the total consolidated income for Walmart is $17‚099 million. In FY14 Walmart recorded a loss from FY13‚ but is showing an increase with $16‚695 million in FY14 to FY15. Page 38 of the Annual Financial Report shows these figures along with many other figures. Investors look at the Annual Financial Report to
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Financial Statement Analysis Chandra Sekhar Mishra VGSOM‚ IIT Kharagpur Outline Financial Statements and their Content ●Why Financial Statement Analysis (FSA)? ●Tools for FSA ● Financial Statements ● Balance Sheet ● ● Statement of financial position Statement of Assets and Liabilities ● ● ● ● Income Statement ● Statement of financial performance ● ● Assets: What a business owns Liabilities: What a business owes to non-owners Equities: What a business owes to owners Revenues and Expenses
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