TY - GEN AU - REDDY, Y V AU - SEBASTIN, A TI - Entropic analysis in financial forensics PY - 2012/// N2 - Digital analysis has become an accepted tool for computer forensic examination of suspicious financial transaction. A major component of digital analysis is Benford's law whic postulates that in accounting data not subject to substantial error orfraud, significiant digits are not uniformly distributed and that smalller digit occur more often then larger digits as significiant digit. In this paper, entropy-based mutual informatiopn is proposed to decide whether a dataset conforms to benford distribution or not ER -