Forensic Accounting in the Indian Market: Detecting Financial Statement Anomalies Using Benford’s Law
Detecting corporate accounting anomalies using Benford’s Law. This project analyzes the Satyam Computer Services scandal against a control group of stable Indian companies to test for financial manipulation.
This repository contains the report, slides, and jupyter notebook file containing the code to conduct the financial analysis for the course project of the Finance course (DA242) offered during Semester 3 at Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, Belur as a part of the Master of Science in Big Data Analytics program.
This project was done by the team "Bhattacharya Brothers", whose team members are:
- Bhattacharya Brothers
29 November, 2025