Should the Auditors Look at This Firm?
From its sector, location, the discrepancies found and its history, is this firm high-risk? Audit offices have more firms than inspectors, so they need to choose.
The table
Firms reviewed by an Indian audit office, with sector, location, discrepancy amounts and history scores, labelled high-risk or not. It's in Welt's research catalogue as Audit Data Fraudulent Firm Classification, 1,552 rows by 37 columns, licensed CC BY 4.0. The catalogue measures its signal at 0.60. At 1,552 rows and 36 features, TabICLv2, Kumo Tabular Medium and Mitra-v2 take the table as it is. The others can't take a table this size, so the walkthrough leaves them out.
Walkthrough
Load it from the catalogue
Find the table, read its recorded target and print the column names.
import pandas as pd from welt import Client with Client() as client: item = client.research_datasets(q="audit data fraudulent firm", limit=1)["items"][0] info = client.research_dataset(item["id"]) data = client.load_research_dataset(item["id"]) target = info["targets"][0] target = target["name"] if isinstance(target, dict) else target print([column["name"] for column in info["schema"]], target)Pick the rows
Set aside 20 rows to predict at the end, and keep the rest for the models to learn from.
known = data.dropna(subset=[target]) new_rows = known.sample(20, random_state=1) table = known.drop(new_rows.index)Compare the models and predict
The models compete on the same folds against a simple guess, then the top-ranked one is fitted on the whole table. ROC AUC runs from 0.5, a coin toss, to 1, a perfect ranking, and a lower Brier score means the probabilities can be trusted more. The last table puts each prediction next to the real answer.
with Client() as client: evaluation = client.evaluate(table, target, task="classification", seed=7, models=["tabicl-v2", "kumo-medium", "mitra-v2"]) model = evaluation.fit() print(evaluation.summary()[["name", "rank", "roc_auc_mean", "brier_mean"]]) features = new_rows.drop(columns=target) print(pd.DataFrame({"actual": new_rows[target].values, "predicted": model.predict(features), "probability": model.predict_proba(features).max(axis=1)}))
What you get
Try it
Use Open with to run the research datasets notebook in Colab, Kaggle or Jupyter and search for "audit data fraudulent firm", or run the code above after pip install "welt-client[parquet]".
Open with
- Type
- Use case
- Area
- Finance
- Question
- Should the Auditors Look at This Firm?
- Model
- TabICLv2, Kumo Tabular Medium, Mitra-v2
- Data
- Audit Data Fraudulent Firm Classification, 1,552 rows
- For
- Auditors and public-sector finance teams
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0