You create the impression that a South African, Francois van der Walt, developed the technology known as Benford's Law. It tests for abnormalities in the digit patterns and abnormal number duplication in corporate data. DA is based on a mathematical phenomenon known as Benford's Law. Frank Benford published his paper in 1938, with empirical evidence and formulae related to the expected probabilities of digits. I started working with the formulae in 1989 when I was a PhD student in Cincinnati.
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By mid-1997 we had completed the analytics tool. I've since moved to Dallas to market the technology. The techniques are used most often to audit accounts payable systems. My former MBA adviser at Stellenbosch GSB, Prof Wim Gevers, wrote to me that the FM had run a story on Benford's Law. He suggested that I use the search engine on fm.co.za and look up the word Benford.