• DocumentCode
    1219957
  • Title

    Automated auditors to chase down cheats

  • Author

    Jones, Willie D.

  • Volume
    46
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    4/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    13
  • Lastpage
    13
  • Abstract
    In December, when Bernard Madoff´s hedge fund turned out to be a gigantic Ponzi scheme that was US $50 billion in the red, everybody wondered how this had gone undetected for more than a decade. Amazingly, in separate audits, government auditors saw no evidence of wrongdoing.
  • Keywords
    Government;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Spectrum, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9235
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSPEC.2009.4808395
  • Filename
    4808395