Scott is a forensic accountant at a large professional services firm. He is working on an engagement at a client site and is looking at the data file containing dollar amounts on 10,000 invoices that have been submitted by an employee in the Purchasing Department over five years. He notices that the dollar amounts are approximately equally distributed over all digits. In other words, about 1000 invoices have dollar amounts starting with the digit 1, and about 1000 invoices have dollar amounts starting with digit 2, and so on.

What should Scott conclude at this point? 

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Scott should conclude that the dollar amounts on the invoices are likely not naturally occurring and ... View the full answer