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A comment on The Double-Entry Counting Method (2016).

Re:The Double-Entry Counting Method (2016) by otoburb on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @10:23AM (#23976095)
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.

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Re:The Double-Entry Counting Method (2016) by specialist on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @10:27AM (#23976130)
Throwaway idea: Has anyone trained some auditing AI by feeding known fraud data sets into the machine?
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Re:The Double-Entry Counting Method (2016) by EricE on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @02:39PM (#23979212)
You don't need AI, just a well understood axiom: 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.

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