Identification of financial statement fraud in Greece by using computational intelligence techniques

C Chimonaki, S Papadakis, K Vergos, Azar Shahgholian*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The consequences of financial fraud are an issue with far-reaching for investors, lenders, regulators, corporate sectors and consumers. The range of development of new technologies such as cloud and mobile computing in recent years has compounded the problem. Manual detection which is a traditional method is not only inaccurate, expensive and time-consuming but also they are impractical for the management of big data. Auditors, financial institutions and regulators have tried to automated processes using statistical and computational methods. This paper presents comprehensive research in financial statement fraud detection by using machine learning techniques with a particular focus on computational intelligence (CI) techniques. We have collected a sample of 2469 observations since 2002 to 2015. Research gap was identified as none of the existing researchers address the association between financial statement fraud and CI-based detection algorithms and their performance, as reported in the literature. Also, the innovation of this research is that the selection of data sample is aimed to create models which will be capable of detecting the falsification in financial statements.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEnterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry
Subtitle of host publication9th International Workshop, FinanceCom 2018, Manchester, UK, June 22, 2018, Revised Papers
EditorsNikolay Mehandjiev, Brahim Saadouni
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer Cham
Pages39–51
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9783030190378
ISBN (Print)9783030190361
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 May 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Business Information Processing
PublisherSpringer
Volume345
ISSN (Print)1865-1348
ISSN (Electronic)1865-1356

Keywords

  • financial statement fraud
  • machine learning techniques
  • classification

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