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When I comb through financial statements (for fun, but not much profit yet) I always feel like I'm analyzing stack traces. How I wish there was a gdb/rr/Valgrin
by otoburb 6y ago
When I comb through financial statements (for fun, but not much profit yet) I always feel like I'm analyzing stack traces. How I wish there was a gdb/rr/Valgrind or similar debug framework for financial accounting statements.
EDIT: Spreadsheet software helps a lot, but that's about the same as being given a hex editor. Necessary, but oh so tedious.
- specialist 6y agoThrowaway idea: Has anyone trained some auditing AI by feeding known fraud data sets into the machine?
- EricE 6y agoYou don't need AI, just a well understood axiom: https://analyticsindiamag.com/the-power-of-benfords-law-in-detecting-financial-fraud/ https://analyticsindiamag.com/the-power-of-benfords-law-in-d... People have been pretty smart throughout history, not just the last few decades. AI has to be one of the most overhyped solutions in the 20th century.