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題名 Unsupervised Neural Networks Approach for Understanding Fraudulent Financial Reporting
作者 Huang, Shin-Ying; Tsaih, Rua-Huan ; Lin, Wan-Ying
黃馨瑩;蔡瑞煌;林宛瑩
貢獻者 會計系
關鍵詞 Financial reporting;Knowledge management;Neural nets;Financial statements;Fraudulent financial reporting;Growing hierarchical self-organizing map;Knowledge extraction
日期 2011-09
上傳時間 18-Feb-2014 16:35:46 (UTC+8)
摘要 Purpose - Creditor reliance on accounting-based numbers as a persistent and traditional standard to assess a firm`s financial soundness and viability suggests that the integrity of financial statements is essential to credit decisions. The purpose of this paper is to provide an approach to explore fraudulent financial reporting (FFR) via growing hierarchical self-organizing map (GHSOM), an unsupervised neural network tool, to help capital providers evaluate the integrity of financial statements, and to facilitate analysis further to reach prudent credit decisions. Design/methodology/approach - This paper develops a two-stage approach: a classification stage that well trains the GHSOM to cluster the sample into subgroups with hierarchical relationship, and a pattern-disclosure stage that uncovers patterns of the common FFR techniques and relevant risk indicators of each subgroup. Findings - An application is conducted and its results show that the proposed two-stage approach can help capital providers evaluate the reliability of financial statements and accounting numbers-based decisions. Practical implications - Following the SOM theories, it seems that common FFR techniques and relevant risk indicators extracted from the GHSOM clustering result are applicable to all samples clustered in the same leaf node (subgroup). This principle and any pre-warning signal derived from the identified indicators can be applied to assessing the reliability of financial statements and forming a basis for further analysis in order to reach prudent decisions. The limitation of this paper is the subjective parameter setting of GHSOM. Originality/value - This is the first application of GHSOM to financial data and demonstrates an alternative way to help capital providers such as lenders to evaluate the integrity of financial statements, a basis for further analysis to reach prudent decisions. The proposed approach could be applied to other scenarios that rely on accounting numbers as a basis for decisions.
關聯 Industrial Management and Data Systems, 112(2), 224 - 244
資料來源 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02635571211204272
資料類型 article
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02635571211204272
dc.contributor 會計系en_US
dc.creator (作者) Huang, Shin-Ying; Tsaih, Rua-Huan ; Lin, Wan-Yingen_US
dc.creator (作者) 黃馨瑩;蔡瑞煌;林宛瑩zh_TW
dc.date (日期) 2011-09en_US
dc.date.accessioned 18-Feb-2014 16:35:46 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 18-Feb-2014 16:35:46 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 18-Feb-2014 16:35:46 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/63967-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) Purpose - Creditor reliance on accounting-based numbers as a persistent and traditional standard to assess a firm`s financial soundness and viability suggests that the integrity of financial statements is essential to credit decisions. The purpose of this paper is to provide an approach to explore fraudulent financial reporting (FFR) via growing hierarchical self-organizing map (GHSOM), an unsupervised neural network tool, to help capital providers evaluate the integrity of financial statements, and to facilitate analysis further to reach prudent credit decisions. Design/methodology/approach - This paper develops a two-stage approach: a classification stage that well trains the GHSOM to cluster the sample into subgroups with hierarchical relationship, and a pattern-disclosure stage that uncovers patterns of the common FFR techniques and relevant risk indicators of each subgroup. Findings - An application is conducted and its results show that the proposed two-stage approach can help capital providers evaluate the reliability of financial statements and accounting numbers-based decisions. Practical implications - Following the SOM theories, it seems that common FFR techniques and relevant risk indicators extracted from the GHSOM clustering result are applicable to all samples clustered in the same leaf node (subgroup). This principle and any pre-warning signal derived from the identified indicators can be applied to assessing the reliability of financial statements and forming a basis for further analysis in order to reach prudent decisions. The limitation of this paper is the subjective parameter setting of GHSOM. Originality/value - This is the first application of GHSOM to financial data and demonstrates an alternative way to help capital providers such as lenders to evaluate the integrity of financial statements, a basis for further analysis to reach prudent decisions. The proposed approach could be applied to other scenarios that rely on accounting numbers as a basis for decisions.-
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dc.relation (關聯) Industrial Management and Data Systems, 112(2), 224 - 244en_US
dc.source.uri (資料來源) http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02635571211204272-
dc.subject (關鍵詞) Financial reporting;Knowledge management;Neural nets;Financial statements;Fraudulent financial reporting;Growing hierarchical self-organizing map;Knowledge extractionen_US
dc.title (題名) Unsupervised Neural Networks Approach for Understanding Fraudulent Financial Reportingen_US
dc.type (資料類型) articleen
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.1108/02635571211204272-
dc.doi.uri (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02635571211204272-