Benford's law can help detect fraud by:

a. establishing weaknesses in the accounting control system.
b. identifying accounting anomalies.
c. focusing on unexplained changes.
d. identifying possible attempts by fraudsters to make stolen amounts look random.


d
FEEDBACK: a. Incorrect. Benford's law does not show weaknesses in the control system..
b. Incorrect. Benford's law does not identify accounting anomalies.
c. Incorrect.
d. Correct.

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