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What is Benford's Law and how can it be applied to detect financial statement fraud?

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What is Benford's Law and how can it be applied to detectfinancial statement fraud?

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Benford Law is a mathematical theory which deals with a set of digits It states that in a data sets the leading digits ie the first digit of the set is distributed in a non uniform way    See Answer
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