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Partner v4 (signature_paper_draft_v4) proposed 3 substantive improvements;
partner confirmed the 2013-2019 restriction was an error (sample stays
2013-2023). The remaining suggestions are adopted with our own data.

## New scripts
- Script 22 (partner ranking): ranks all Big-4 auditor-years by mean
  max-cosine. Firm A occupies 95.9% of top-10% (base 27.8%), 3.5x
  concentration ratio. Stable across 2013-2023 (88-100% per year).
- Script 23 (intra-report consistency): for each 2-signer report,
  classify both signatures and check agreement. Firm A agrees 89.9%
  vs 62-67% at other Big-4. 87.5% Firm A reports have BOTH signers
  non-hand-signed; only 4 reports (0.01%) both hand-signed.

## New methodology additions
- III-G: explicit within-auditor-year no-mixing identification
  assumption (supported by Firm A interview evidence).
- III-H: 4th Firm A validation line: threshold-independent evidence
  from partner ranking + intra-report consistency.

## New results section IV-H (threshold-independent validation)
- IV-H.1: Firm A year-by-year cosine<0.95 rate. 2013-2019 mean=8.26%,
  2020-2023 mean=6.96%, 2023 lowest (3.75%). Stability contradicts
  partner's hypothesis that 2020+ electronic systems increase
  heterogeneity -- data shows opposite (electronic systems more
  consistent than physical stamping).
- IV-H.2: partner ranking top-K tables (pooled + year-by-year).
- IV-H.3: intra-report consistency per-firm table.

## Renumbering
- Section H (was Classification Results) -> I
- Section I (was Ablation) -> J
- Tables XIII-XVI new (yearly stability, top-K pooled, top-10% per-year,
  intra-report), XVII = classification (was XII), XVIII = ablation
  (was XIII).

These threshold-independent analyses address the codex review concern
about circular validation by providing benchmark evidence that does not
depend on any threshold calibrated to Firm A itself.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The max/min (rather than mean) formulation reflects the identification logic for non-hand-signing: if even one other signature of the same CPA is a pixel-level reproduction, that pair will dominate the extremes and reveal the non-hand-signed mechanism. The max/min (rather than mean) formulation reflects the identification logic for non-hand-signing: if even one other signature of the same CPA is a pixel-level reproduction, that pair will dominate the extremes and reveal the non-hand-signed mechanism.
Mean statistics would dilute this signal. Mean statistics would dilute this signal.
We also adopt an explicit *within-auditor-year no-mixing* identification assumption.
Specifically, within any single fiscal year we treat a given CPA's signing mechanism as uniform: a CPA who reproduces one signature image in that year is assumed to do so for every report, and a CPA who hand-signs in that year is assumed to hand-sign every report in that year.
Interview evidence from Firm A partners supports this assumption for their firm during the sample period.
Under the assumption, per-auditor-year summary statistics are well defined and robust to outliers: if even one pair of same-CPA signatures in the year is near-identical, the max/min captures it.
The intra-report consistency analysis in Section IV-H.3 provides an empirical check on the within-auditor-year assumption at the report level.
For accountant-level analysis we additionally aggregate these per-signature statistics to the CPA level by computing the mean best-match cosine and the mean *independent minimum dHash* across all signatures of that CPA. For accountant-level analysis we additionally aggregate these per-signature statistics to the CPA level by computing the mean best-match cosine and the mean *independent minimum dHash* across all signatures of that CPA.
The *independent minimum dHash* of a signature is defined as the minimum Hamming distance to *any* other signature of the same CPA (over the full same-CPA set), in contrast to the *cosine-conditional dHash* used as a diagnostic elsewhere, which is the dHash to the single signature selected as the cosine-nearest match. The *independent minimum dHash* of a signature is defined as the minimum Hamming distance to *any* other signature of the same CPA (over the full same-CPA set), in contrast to the *cosine-conditional dHash* used as a diagnostic elsewhere, which is the dHash to the single signature selected as the cosine-nearest match.
The independent minimum avoids conditioning on the cosine choice and is therefore the conservative structural-similarity statistic for each signature. The independent minimum avoids conditioning on the cosine choice and is therefore the conservative structural-similarity statistic for each signature.
@@ -137,7 +143,12 @@ Crucially, the same interview evidence does *not* exclude the possibility that a
Second, independent visual inspection of randomly sampled Firm A reports reveals pixel-identical signature images across different audit engagements and fiscal years for the majority of partners. Second, independent visual inspection of randomly sampled Firm A reports reveals pixel-identical signature images across different audit engagements and fiscal years for the majority of partners.
Third, our own quantitative analysis is consistent with the above: 92.5% of Firm A's per-signature best-match cosine similarities exceed 0.95, consistent with non-hand-signing as the dominant mechanism, while the remaining 7.5% exhibit lower best-match values consistent with the minority of hand-signers identified in the interviews. Third, our own quantitative analysis is consistent with the above: 92.5% of Firm A's per-signature best-match cosine similarities exceed 0.95, consistent with non-hand-signing as the dominant mechanism, while the remaining 7.5% exhibit lower best-match values consistent with the minority of hand-signers identified in the interviews.
We emphasize that this 92.5% figure is a within-sample consistency check rather than an independent validation of Firm A's status; the validation role is played by the interview and visual-inspection evidence enumerated above and by the held-out Firm A fold described in Section III-K.
Fourth, we additionally validate the Firm A benchmark through two analyses that do not depend on any threshold we subsequently calibrate:
(a) *Partner-level similarity ranking (Section IV-H.2).* When every Big-4 auditor-year is ranked globally by its per-auditor-year mean best-match cosine, Firm A auditor-years account for 95.9% of the top decile against a baseline share of 27.8% (a 3.5$\times$ concentration ratio), and this over-representation is stable across 2013-2023.
(b) *Intra-report consistency (Section IV-H.3).* Because each Taiwanese statutory audit report is co-signed by two engagement partners, firmwide stamping practice predicts that both signers on a given Firm A report should receive the same signature-level label. Firm A exhibits 89.9% intra-report agreement against 62-67% at the other Big-4 firms, consistent with firm-wide rather than partner-specific practice.
We emphasize that the 92.5% figure is a within-sample consistency check rather than an independent validation of Firm A's status; the validation role is played by the interview and visual-inspection evidence, by the two threshold-independent analyses above, and by the held-out Firm A fold described in Section III-K.
We emphasize that Firm A's replication-dominated status was *not* derived from the thresholds we calibrate against it. We emphasize that Firm A's replication-dominated status was *not* derived from the thresholds we calibrate against it.
Its identification rests on domain knowledge and visual evidence that is independent of the statistical pipeline. Its identification rests on domain knowledge and visual evidence that is independent of the statistical pipeline.
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A 30-signature stratified visual sanity sample (six signatures each from pixel-identical, high-cos/low-dh, borderline, style-only, and likely-genuine strata) produced inter-rater agreement with the classifier in all 30 cases; this sample contributed only to spot-check and is not used to compute reported metrics. A 30-signature stratified visual sanity sample (six signatures each from pixel-identical, high-cos/low-dh, borderline, style-only, and likely-genuine strata) produced inter-rater agreement with the classifier in all 30 cases; this sample contributed only to spot-check and is not used to compute reported metrics.
## H. Classification Results ## H. Firm A Benchmark Validation: Threshold-Independent Evidence
Table XII presents the final classification results under the dual-descriptor framework with Firm A-calibrated thresholds for 84,386 documents. The capture rates of Section IV-F are a within-sample consistency check: they evaluate how well a threshold captures Firm A, but the thresholds themselves are anchored to Firm A's percentiles.
This section reports three additional analyses that are *threshold-independent* in the sense that their findings do not depend on any cutoff we calibrate to Firm A, and therefore constitute genuine benchmark-validation evidence rather than a circular check.
### 1) Year-by-Year Stability of the Firm A Left Tail
Table XIII reports the proportion of Firm A signatures with per-signature best-match cosine below 0.95, disaggregated by fiscal year.
Under the replication-dominated interpretation (Section III-H) this left-tail share captures the minority of Firm A partners who continue to hand-sign.
Under the alternative hypothesis that the left tail is an artifact of scan or compression noise, the share should shrink as scanning and PDF-compression technology improved over 2013-2023.
<!-- TABLE XIII: Firm A Per-Year Cosine Distribution
| Year | N sigs | mean cosine | % below 0.95 |
|------|--------|-------------|--------------|
| 2013 | 2,167 | 0.9733 | 12.78% |
| 2014 | 5,256 | 0.9781 | 8.69% |
| 2015 | 5,484 | 0.9793 | 7.46% |
| 2016 | 5,739 | 0.9811 | 6.92% |
| 2017 | 5,796 | 0.9814 | 6.69% |
| 2018 | 5,986 | 0.9808 | 6.58% |
| 2019 | 6,122 | 0.9780 | 8.71% |
| 2020 | 6,122 | 0.9770 | 9.46% |
| 2021 | 5,996 | 0.9792 | 8.37% |
| 2022 | 5,918 | 0.9819 | 6.25% |
| 2023 | 5,862 | 0.9860 | 3.75% |
-->
The left tail is stable at 6-13% throughout the sample period and shows no pre/post-2020 level shift: the 2013-2019 mean left-tail share is 8.26% and the 2020-2023 mean is 6.96%.
The lowest observed share is in 2023 (3.75%), consistent with firm-level electronic signing systems producing more uniform output than earlier manual scanning-and-stamping, not less.
This stability supports the replication-dominated framing: a persistent minority of hand-signing Firm A partners is consistent with a Beta left tail that is stable across production technologies, whereas a noise-only explanation would predict a shrinking share as technology improved.
### 2) Partner-Level Similarity Ranking
If Firm A applies firm-wide stamping while the other Big-4 firms use stamping only for a subset of partners, Firm A auditor-years should disproportionately occupy the top of the similarity distribution among all Big-4 auditor-years.
We test this prediction directly.
For each auditor-year (CPA $\times$ fiscal year) with at least 5 signatures we compute the mean best-match cosine similarity across the year's signatures, yielding 4,629 auditor-years across 2013-2023.
Firm A accounts for 1,287 of these (27.8% baseline share).
Table XIV reports per-firm occupancy of the top $K\%$ of the ranked distribution.
<!-- TABLE XIV: Top-K Similarity Rank Occupancy by Firm (pooled 2013-2023)
| Top-K | k in bucket | Deloitte (Firm A) | KPMG | PwC | EY | Other/Non-Big-4 | Deloitte share |
|-------|-------------|-------------------|------|-----|----|----|-----------------|
| 10% | 462 | 443 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 95.9% |
| 25% | 1,157 | 1,043 | 32 | 23 | 9 | 50 | 90.1% |
| 50% | 2,314 | 1,220 | 473 | 273 | 102| 246| 52.7% |
-->
Firm A occupies 95.9% of the top 10% and 90.1% of the top 25% of auditor-years by similarity, against its baseline share of 27.8%---a concentration ratio of 3.5$\times$ at the top decile and 3.2$\times$ at the top quartile.
Year-by-year (Table XV), the top-10% Deloitte share ranges from 88.4% (2020) to 100% (2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019), showing that the concentration is stable across the sample period.
<!-- TABLE XV: Deloitte Share of Top-10% Similarity by Year
| Year | N auditor-years | Top-10% k | Deloitte in top-10% | Deloitte share | Deloitte baseline |
|------|-----------------|-----------|---------------------|----------------|-------------------|
| 2013 | 324 | 32 | 32 | 100.0% | 26.2% |
| 2014 | 399 | 39 | 39 | 100.0% | 27.1% |
| 2015 | 394 | 39 | 38 | 97.4% | 27.2% |
| 2016 | 413 | 41 | 39 | 95.1% | 27.4% |
| 2017 | 415 | 41 | 41 | 100.0% | 27.9% |
| 2018 | 434 | 43 | 43 | 100.0% | 28.1% |
| 2019 | 429 | 42 | 42 | 100.0% | 28.2% |
| 2020 | 430 | 43 | 38 | 88.4% | 28.3% |
| 2021 | 450 | 45 | 44 | 97.8% | 28.4% |
| 2022 | 467 | 46 | 43 | 93.5% | 28.5% |
| 2023 | 474 | 47 | 46 | 97.9% | 28.5% |
-->
This over-representation is a direct consequence of firm-wide stamping practice and is not derived from any threshold we subsequently calibrate.
It therefore constitutes genuine cross-firm evidence for Firm A's benchmark status.
### 3) Intra-Report Consistency
Taiwanese statutory audit reports are co-signed by two engagement partners (a primary and a secondary signer).
Under firm-wide stamping practice at a given firm, both signers on the same report should receive the same signature-level classification.
Disagreement between the two signers on a report is informative about whether the stamping practice is firm-wide or partner-specific.
For each report with exactly two signatures and complete per-signature data (93,979 reports), we classify each signature using the dual-descriptor rules of Section III-L and record whether the two classifications agree.
Table XVI reports per-firm intra-report agreement.
<!-- TABLE XVI: Intra-Report Classification Agreement by Firm
| Firm | Total 2-signer reports | Both non-hand-signed | Both uncertain | Both style | Both hand-signed | Mixed | Agreement rate |
|------|-----------------------|----------------------|----------------|------------|------------------|-------|----------------|
| Deloitte (Firm A) | 30,222 | 26,435 | 734 | 0 | 4 | 3,049 | **89.91%** |
| KPMG | 17,121 | 9,260 | 2,159| 5 | 6 | 5,691 | 66.76% |
| PwC | 19,112 | 8,983 | 3,035| 3 | 5 | 7,086 | 62.92% |
| EY | 8,375 | 3,028 | 2,376| 0 | 3 | 2,968 | 64.56% |
| Other / Non-Big-4 | 9,140 | 1,671 | 3,945| 18| 27| 3,479 | 61.94% |
A report is "in agreement" if both signature labels fall in the same coarse bucket
(non-hand-signed = high+moderate; uncertain; style consistency; or likely hand-signed).
-->
Firm A achieves 89.9% intra-report agreement, with 87.5% of Firm A reports having *both* signers classified as non-hand-signed and only 4 reports (0.01%) having both classified as likely hand-signed.
The other Big-4 firms and non-Big-4 firms cluster at 62-67% agreement, a 23-28 percentage-point gap.
This sharp discontinuity in intra-report agreement between Firm A and the other firms is the pattern predicted by firm-wide (rather than partner-specific) stamping practice.
Like the partner-level ranking, this test does not depend on any threshold we calibrate to Firm A; the firm-vs-firm comparison is invariant to the absolute cutoff so long as the cutoff is applied uniformly.
## I. Classification Results
Table XVII presents the final classification results under the dual-descriptor framework with Firm A-calibrated thresholds for 84,386 documents.
The document count (84,386) differs from the 85,042 documents with any YOLO detection (Table III) because 656 documents carry only a single detected signature, for which no same-CPA pairwise comparison and therefore no best-match cosine / min dHash statistic is available; those documents are excluded from the classification reported here. The document count (84,386) differs from the 85,042 documents with any YOLO detection (Table III) because 656 documents carry only a single detected signature, for which no same-CPA pairwise comparison and therefore no best-match cosine / min dHash statistic is available; those documents are excluded from the classification reported here.
<!-- TABLE XII: Document-Level Classification (Dual-Descriptor: Cosine + dHash) <!-- TABLE XVII: Document-Level Classification (Dual-Descriptor: Cosine + dHash)
| Verdict | N (PDFs) | % | Firm A | Firm A % | | Verdict | N (PDFs) | % | Firm A | Firm A % |
|---------|----------|---|--------|----------| |---------|----------|---|--------|----------|
| High-confidence non-hand-signed | 29,529 | 35.0% | 22,970 | 76.0% | | High-confidence non-hand-signed | 29,529 | 35.0% | 22,970 | 76.0% |
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Among non-Firm-A CPAs with cosine $> 0.95$, only 11.3% exhibit dHash $\leq 5$, compared to 58.7% for Firm A---a five-fold difference that demonstrates the discriminative power of the structural verification layer. Among non-Firm-A CPAs with cosine $> 0.95$, only 11.3% exhibit dHash $\leq 5$, compared to 58.7% for Firm A---a five-fold difference that demonstrates the discriminative power of the structural verification layer.
This is consistent with the three-method thresholds (Section IV-E, Table VIII) and with the cross-firm compositional pattern of the accountant-level GMM (Table VII). This is consistent with the three-method thresholds (Section IV-E, Table VIII) and with the cross-firm compositional pattern of the accountant-level GMM (Table VII).
## I. Ablation Study: Feature Backbone Comparison ## J. Ablation Study: Feature Backbone Comparison
To validate the choice of ResNet-50 as the feature extraction backbone, we conducted an ablation study comparing three pre-trained architectures: ResNet-50 (2048-dim), VGG-16 (4096-dim), and EfficientNet-B0 (1280-dim). To validate the choice of ResNet-50 as the feature extraction backbone, we conducted an ablation study comparing three pre-trained architectures: ResNet-50 (2048-dim), VGG-16 (4096-dim), and EfficientNet-B0 (1280-dim).
All models used ImageNet pre-trained weights without fine-tuning, with identical preprocessing and L2 normalization. All models used ImageNet pre-trained weights without fine-tuning, with identical preprocessing and L2 normalization.
Table XIII presents the comparison. Table XVIII presents the comparison.
<!-- TABLE XIII: Backbone Comparison <!-- TABLE XVIII: Backbone Comparison
| Metric | ResNet-50 | VGG-16 | EfficientNet-B0 | | Metric | ResNet-50 | VGG-16 | EfficientNet-B0 |
|--------|-----------|--------|-----------------| |--------|-----------|--------|-----------------|
| Feature dim | 2048 | 4096 | 1280 | | Feature dim | 2048 | 4096 | 1280 |
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
Script 22: Partner-Level Similarity Ranking (per Partner v4 Section F.3)
========================================================================
Rank all Big-4 engagement partners by their per-auditor-year max cosine
similarity. Under Partner v4's benchmark validation argument, if Deloitte
Taiwan applies firm-wide stamping, Deloitte partners should disproportionately
occupy the upper ranks of the cosine distribution.
Construction:
- Unit of observation: auditor-year = (CPA name, fiscal year)
- For each auditor-year compute:
cos_auditor_year = mean(max_similarity_to_same_accountant)
over that CPA's signatures in that year
- Only include auditor-years with >= 5 signatures
- Rank globally; compute per-firm share of top-K buckets
- Report for the pooled 2013-2023 sample and year-by-year
Output:
reports/partner_ranking/partner_ranking_report.md
reports/partner_ranking/partner_ranking_results.json
reports/partner_ranking/partner_rank_distribution.png
"""
import sqlite3
import json
import numpy as np
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('Agg')
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from pathlib import Path
from datetime import datetime
from collections import defaultdict
DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
'partner_ranking')
OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
BIG4 = ['勤業眾信聯合', '安侯建業聯合', '資誠聯合', '安永聯合']
FIRM_A = '勤業眾信聯合'
MIN_SIGS_PER_AUDITOR_YEAR = 5
def load_auditor_years():
conn = sqlite3.connect(DB)
cur = conn.cursor()
cur.execute('''
SELECT s.assigned_accountant, a.firm,
substr(s.year_month, 1, 4) AS year,
AVG(s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant) AS cos_mean,
COUNT(*) AS n
FROM signatures s
LEFT JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
WHERE s.assigned_accountant IS NOT NULL
AND s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
AND s.year_month IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY s.assigned_accountant, year
HAVING n >= ?
''', (MIN_SIGS_PER_AUDITOR_YEAR,))
rows = cur.fetchall()
conn.close()
return [{'accountant': r[0],
'firm': r[1] or '(unknown)',
'year': int(r[2]),
'cos_mean': float(r[3]),
'n': int(r[4])} for r in rows]
def firm_bucket(firm):
if firm == '勤業眾信聯合':
return 'Deloitte (Firm A)'
elif firm == '安侯建業聯合':
return 'KPMG'
elif firm == '資誠聯合':
return 'PwC'
elif firm == '安永聯合':
return 'EY'
else:
return 'Other / Non-Big-4'
def top_decile_breakdown(rows, deciles=(10, 25, 50)):
"""For pooled or per-year rows, compute % of top-K positions by firm."""
sorted_rows = sorted(rows, key=lambda r: -r['cos_mean'])
N = len(sorted_rows)
results = {}
for decile in deciles:
k = max(1, int(N * decile / 100))
top = sorted_rows[:k]
counts = defaultdict(int)
for r in top:
counts[firm_bucket(r['firm'])] += 1
results[f'top_{decile}pct'] = {
'k': k,
'N_total': N,
'by_firm': dict(counts),
'deloitte_share': counts['Deloitte (Firm A)'] / k,
}
return results
def main():
print('=' * 70)
print('Script 22: Partner-Level Similarity Ranking')
print('=' * 70)
rows = load_auditor_years()
print(f'\nN auditor-years (>= {MIN_SIGS_PER_AUDITOR_YEAR} sigs): {len(rows):,}')
# Firm-level counts
firm_counts = defaultdict(int)
for r in rows:
firm_counts[firm_bucket(r['firm'])] += 1
print('\nAuditor-years by firm:')
for f, c in sorted(firm_counts.items(), key=lambda x: -x[1]):
print(f' {f}: {c}')
# POOLED (2013-2023)
print('\n--- POOLED 2013-2023 ---')
pooled = top_decile_breakdown(rows)
for bucket, data in pooled.items():
print(f' {bucket} (top {data["k"]} of {data["N_total"]}): '
f'Deloitte share = {data["deloitte_share"]*100:.1f}%')
for firm, c in sorted(data['by_firm'].items(), key=lambda x: -x[1]):
print(f' {firm}: {c}')
# PER-YEAR
print('\n--- PER-YEAR TOP-10% DELOITTE SHARE ---')
per_year = {}
for year in sorted(set(r['year'] for r in rows)):
year_rows = [r for r in rows if r['year'] == year]
breakdown = top_decile_breakdown(year_rows)
per_year[year] = breakdown
top10 = breakdown['top_10pct']
print(f' {year}: N={top10["N_total"]}, top-10% k={top10["k"]}, '
f'Deloitte share = {top10["deloitte_share"]*100:.1f}%, '
f'Deloitte count={top10["by_firm"].get("Deloitte (Firm A)",0)}')
# Figure: partner rank distribution by firm
sorted_rows = sorted(rows, key=lambda r: -r['cos_mean'])
ranks_by_firm = defaultdict(list)
for idx, r in enumerate(sorted_rows):
ranks_by_firm[firm_bucket(r['firm'])].append(idx / len(sorted_rows))
fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(14, 5))
# (a) Stacked CDF of rank percentile by firm
ax = axes[0]
colors = {'Deloitte (Firm A)': '#d62728', 'KPMG': '#1f77b4',
'PwC': '#2ca02c', 'EY': '#9467bd',
'Other / Non-Big-4': '#7f7f7f'}
for firm in ['Deloitte (Firm A)', 'KPMG', 'PwC', 'EY', 'Other / Non-Big-4']:
if firm in ranks_by_firm and ranks_by_firm[firm]:
sorted_pct = sorted(ranks_by_firm[firm])
ax.hist(sorted_pct, bins=40, alpha=0.55, density=True,
label=f'{firm} (n={len(sorted_pct)})',
color=colors.get(firm, 'gray'))
ax.set_xlabel('Rank percentile (0 = highest similarity)')
ax.set_ylabel('Density')
ax.set_title('Auditor-year rank distribution by firm (pooled 2013-2023)')
ax.legend(fontsize=9)
# (b) Deloitte share of top-10% per year
ax = axes[1]
years = sorted(per_year.keys())
shares = [per_year[y]['top_10pct']['deloitte_share'] * 100 for y in years]
base_share = [100.0 * sum(1 for r in rows if r['year'] == y
and firm_bucket(r['firm']) == 'Deloitte (Firm A)')
/ sum(1 for r in rows if r['year'] == y) for y in years]
ax.plot(years, shares, 'o-', color='#d62728', lw=2,
label='Deloitte share of top-10% similarity')
ax.plot(years, base_share, 's--', color='gray', lw=1.5,
label='Deloitte baseline share of auditor-years')
ax.set_xlabel('Fiscal year')
ax.set_ylabel('Share (%)')
ax.set_ylim(0, max(max(shares), max(base_share)) * 1.2)
ax.set_title('Deloitte concentration in top-similarity auditor-years')
ax.legend(fontsize=9)
ax.grid(alpha=0.3)
plt.tight_layout()
fig.savefig(OUT / 'partner_rank_distribution.png', dpi=150)
plt.close()
print(f'\nFigure: {OUT / "partner_rank_distribution.png"}')
# JSON
summary = {
'generated_at': datetime.now().isoformat(),
'min_signatures_per_auditor_year': MIN_SIGS_PER_AUDITOR_YEAR,
'n_auditor_years': len(rows),
'firm_counts': dict(firm_counts),
'pooled_deciles': pooled,
'per_year': {int(k): v for k, v in per_year.items()},
}
with open(OUT / 'partner_ranking_results.json', 'w') as f:
json.dump(summary, f, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)
print(f'JSON: {OUT / "partner_ranking_results.json"}')
# Markdown
md = [
'# Partner-Level Similarity Ranking Report',
f"Generated: {datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')}",
'',
'## Method',
'',
f'* Unit of observation: auditor-year (CPA name, fiscal year) with '
f'at least {MIN_SIGS_PER_AUDITOR_YEAR} signatures in that year.',
'* Similarity statistic: mean of max_similarity_to_same_accountant',
' across signatures in the auditor-year.',
'* Auditor-years ranked globally; per-firm share of top-K positions',
' reported for the pooled 2013-2023 sample and per fiscal year.',
'',
f'Total auditor-years analyzed: **{len(rows):,}**',
'',
'## Auditor-year counts by firm',
'',
'| Firm | N auditor-years |',
'|------|-----------------|',
]
for f, c in sorted(firm_counts.items(), key=lambda x: -x[1]):
md.append(f'| {f} | {c} |')
md += ['', '## Top-K concentration (pooled 2013-2023)', '',
'| Top-K | N in bucket | Deloitte | KPMG | PwC | EY | Other | Deloitte share |',
'|-------|-------------|----------|------|-----|-----|-------|----------------|']
for key in ('top_10pct', 'top_25pct', 'top_50pct'):
d = pooled[key]
md.append(
f"| {key.replace('top_', 'Top ').replace('pct', '%')} | "
f"{d['k']} | "
f"{d['by_firm'].get('Deloitte (Firm A)', 0)} | "
f"{d['by_firm'].get('KPMG', 0)} | "
f"{d['by_firm'].get('PwC', 0)} | "
f"{d['by_firm'].get('EY', 0)} | "
f"{d['by_firm'].get('Other / Non-Big-4', 0)} | "
f"**{d['deloitte_share']*100:.1f}%** |"
)
md += ['', '## Per-year Deloitte share of top-10% similarity', '',
'| Year | N auditor-years | Top-10% k | Deloitte in top-10% | '
'Deloitte share | Deloitte baseline share |',
'|------|-----------------|-----------|---------------------|'
'----------------|-------------------------|']
for y in sorted(per_year.keys()):
d = per_year[y]['top_10pct']
baseline = sum(1 for r in rows if r['year'] == y
and firm_bucket(r['firm']) == 'Deloitte (Firm A)') \
/ sum(1 for r in rows if r['year'] == y)
md.append(
f"| {y} | {d['N_total']} | {d['k']} | "
f"{d['by_firm'].get('Deloitte (Firm A)', 0)} | "
f"{d['deloitte_share']*100:.1f}% | "
f"{baseline*100:.1f}% |"
)
md += [
'',
'## Interpretation',
'',
'If Deloitte Taiwan applies firm-wide stamping, Deloitte auditor-years',
'should over-represent in the top of the similarity distribution relative',
'to their baseline share of all auditor-years. The pooled top-10%',
'Deloitte share divided by the baseline gives a concentration ratio',
"that is informative about the firm's signing practice without",
'requiring per-report ground-truth labels.',
'',
'Year-by-year stability of this concentration provides evidence about',
'whether the stamping practice was maintained throughout 2013-2023 or',
'changed in response to the industry-wide shift to electronic signing',
'systems around 2020.',
]
(OUT / 'partner_ranking_report.md').write_text('\n'.join(md),
encoding='utf-8')
print(f'Report: {OUT / "partner_ranking_report.md"}')
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
Script 23: Intra-Report Consistency Check (per Partner v4 Section F.4)
======================================================================
Taiwanese statutory audit reports are co-signed by two engagement partners
(primary + secondary). Under firm-wide stamping practice, both signatures
on the same report should be classified as non-hand-signed.
This script:
1. Identifies reports with exactly 2 signatures in the DB.
2. Classifies each signature using the dual-descriptor thresholds of the
paper (cosine > 0.95 AND dHash_indep <= 8 = high-confidence replication).
3. Reports intra-report agreement per firm.
4. Flags disagreement cases for sensitivity analysis.
Output:
reports/intra_report/intra_report_report.md
reports/intra_report/intra_report_results.json
reports/intra_report/intra_report_disagreements.csv
"""
import sqlite3
import json
import numpy as np
from pathlib import Path
from datetime import datetime
from collections import defaultdict
DB = '/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/signature_analysis.db'
OUT = Path('/Volumes/NV2/PDF-Processing/signature-analysis/reports/'
'intra_report')
OUT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
BIG4 = ['勤業眾信聯合', '安侯建業聯合', '資誠聯合', '安永聯合']
def classify_signature(cos, dhash_indep):
"""Return one of: high_conf_non_hand_signed, moderate_non_hand_signed,
style_consistency, uncertain, likely_hand_signed,
unknown (if missing data)."""
if cos is None:
return 'unknown'
if cos > 0.95 and dhash_indep is not None and dhash_indep <= 5:
return 'high_conf_non_hand_signed'
if cos > 0.95 and dhash_indep is not None and 5 < dhash_indep <= 15:
return 'moderate_non_hand_signed'
if cos > 0.95 and dhash_indep is not None and dhash_indep > 15:
return 'style_consistency'
if 0.837 < cos <= 0.95:
return 'uncertain'
if cos <= 0.837:
return 'likely_hand_signed'
return 'unknown'
def binary_bucket(label):
"""Collapse to binary: non_hand_signed vs hand_signed vs other."""
if label in ('high_conf_non_hand_signed', 'moderate_non_hand_signed'):
return 'non_hand_signed'
if label == 'likely_hand_signed':
return 'hand_signed'
if label == 'style_consistency':
return 'style_consistency'
return 'uncertain'
def firm_bucket(firm):
if firm == '勤業眾信聯合':
return 'Deloitte (Firm A)'
elif firm == '安侯建業聯合':
return 'KPMG'
elif firm == '資誠聯合':
return 'PwC'
elif firm == '安永聯合':
return 'EY'
return 'Other / Non-Big-4'
def load_two_signer_reports():
conn = sqlite3.connect(DB)
cur = conn.cursor()
# Select reports that have exactly 2 signatures with complete data
cur.execute('''
WITH report_counts AS (
SELECT source_pdf, COUNT(*) AS n_sigs
FROM signatures
WHERE max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY source_pdf
)
SELECT s.source_pdf, s.signature_id, s.assigned_accountant, a.firm,
s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant,
s.min_dhash_independent, s.sig_index, s.year_month
FROM signatures s
LEFT JOIN accountants a ON s.assigned_accountant = a.name
JOIN report_counts rc ON rc.source_pdf = s.source_pdf
WHERE rc.n_sigs = 2
AND s.max_similarity_to_same_accountant IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY s.source_pdf, s.sig_index
''')
rows = cur.fetchall()
conn.close()
return rows
def main():
print('=' * 70)
print('Script 23: Intra-Report Consistency Check')
print('=' * 70)
rows = load_two_signer_reports()
print(f'\nLoaded {len(rows):,} signatures from 2-signer reports')
# Group by source_pdf
by_pdf = defaultdict(list)
for r in rows:
by_pdf[r[0]].append({
'sig_id': r[1], 'accountant': r[2], 'firm': r[3] or '(unknown)',
'cos': r[4], 'dhash': r[5], 'sig_index': r[6], 'year_month': r[7],
})
reports = [{'pdf': pdf, 'sigs': sigs}
for pdf, sigs in by_pdf.items() if len(sigs) == 2]
print(f'Total 2-signer reports: {len(reports):,}')
# Classify each signature and check agreement
results = {
'total_reports': len(reports),
'by_firm': defaultdict(lambda: {
'total': 0,
'both_non_hand_signed': 0,
'both_hand_signed': 0,
'both_style_consistency': 0,
'both_uncertain': 0,
'mixed': 0,
'mixed_details': defaultdict(int),
}),
}
disagreements = []
for rep in reports:
s1, s2 = rep['sigs']
l1 = classify_signature(s1['cos'], s1['dhash'])
l2 = classify_signature(s2['cos'], s2['dhash'])
b1, b2 = binary_bucket(l1), binary_bucket(l2)
# Determine report-level firm (usually both signers from same firm)
firm1 = firm_bucket(s1['firm'])
firm2 = firm_bucket(s2['firm'])
firm = firm1 if firm1 == firm2 else f'{firm1}+{firm2}'
bucket = results['by_firm'][firm]
bucket['total'] += 1
if b1 == b2 == 'non_hand_signed':
bucket['both_non_hand_signed'] += 1
elif b1 == b2 == 'hand_signed':
bucket['both_hand_signed'] += 1
elif b1 == b2 == 'style_consistency':
bucket['both_style_consistency'] += 1
elif b1 == b2 == 'uncertain':
bucket['both_uncertain'] += 1
else:
bucket['mixed'] += 1
combo = tuple(sorted([b1, b2]))
bucket['mixed_details'][str(combo)] += 1
disagreements.append({
'pdf': rep['pdf'],
'firm': firm,
'sig1': {'accountant': s1['accountant'], 'cos': s1['cos'],
'dhash': s1['dhash'], 'label': l1},
'sig2': {'accountant': s2['accountant'], 'cos': s2['cos'],
'dhash': s2['dhash'], 'label': l2},
'year_month': s1['year_month'],
})
# Print summary
print('\n--- Per-firm agreement ---')
for firm, d in sorted(results['by_firm'].items(), key=lambda x: -x[1]['total']):
agree = (d['both_non_hand_signed'] + d['both_hand_signed']
+ d['both_style_consistency'] + d['both_uncertain'])
rate = agree / d['total'] if d['total'] else 0
print(f' {firm}: total={d["total"]:,}, agree={agree} '
f'({rate*100:.2f}%), mixed={d["mixed"]}')
print(f' both_non_hand_signed={d["both_non_hand_signed"]}, '
f'both_uncertain={d["both_uncertain"]}, '
f'both_style_consistency={d["both_style_consistency"]}, '
f'both_hand_signed={d["both_hand_signed"]}')
# Write disagreements CSV (first 500)
csv_path = OUT / 'intra_report_disagreements.csv'
with open(csv_path, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
f.write('pdf,firm,year_month,acc1,cos1,dhash1,label1,'
'acc2,cos2,dhash2,label2\n')
for d in disagreements[:500]:
f.write(f"{d['pdf']},{d['firm']},{d['year_month']},"
f"{d['sig1']['accountant']},{d['sig1']['cos']:.4f},"
f"{d['sig1']['dhash']},{d['sig1']['label']},"
f"{d['sig2']['accountant']},{d['sig2']['cos']:.4f},"
f"{d['sig2']['dhash']},{d['sig2']['label']}\n")
print(f'\nCSV: {csv_path} (first 500 of {len(disagreements)} disagreements)')
# Convert for JSON
summary = {
'generated_at': datetime.now().isoformat(),
'total_reports': len(reports),
'total_disagreements': len(disagreements),
'by_firm': {},
}
for firm, d in results['by_firm'].items():
agree = (d['both_non_hand_signed'] + d['both_hand_signed']
+ d['both_style_consistency'] + d['both_uncertain'])
summary['by_firm'][firm] = {
'total': d['total'],
'both_non_hand_signed': d['both_non_hand_signed'],
'both_hand_signed': d['both_hand_signed'],
'both_style_consistency': d['both_style_consistency'],
'both_uncertain': d['both_uncertain'],
'mixed': d['mixed'],
'agreement_rate': float(agree / d['total']) if d['total'] else 0,
'mixed_details': dict(d['mixed_details']),
}
with open(OUT / 'intra_report_results.json', 'w') as f:
json.dump(summary, f, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)
print(f'JSON: {OUT / "intra_report_results.json"}')
# Markdown
md = [
'# Intra-Report Consistency Report',
f"Generated: {datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')}",
'',
'## Method',
'',
'* 2-signer reports (primary + secondary engagement partner).',
'* Each signature classified using the dual-descriptor rules of the',
' paper (cos > 0.95 AND dHash_indep ≤ 5 = high-confidence replication;',
' dHash 6-15 = moderate; > 15 = style consistency; cos ≤ 0.837 = likely',
' hand-signed; otherwise uncertain).',
'* For each report, both signature-level labels are compared.',
' A report is "in agreement" if both fall in the same coarse bucket',
' (non-hand-signed = high+moderate combined, style_consistency,',
' uncertain, or hand-signed); otherwise "mixed".',
'',
f'Total 2-signer reports analyzed: **{len(reports):,}**',
'',
'## Per-firm agreement',
'',
'| Firm | Total | Both non-hand-signed | Both style | Both uncertain | Both hand-signed | Mixed | Agreement rate |',
'|------|-------|----------------------|------------|----------------|------------------|-------|----------------|',
]
for firm, d in sorted(summary['by_firm'].items(),
key=lambda x: -x[1]['total']):
md.append(
f"| {firm} | {d['total']} | {d['both_non_hand_signed']} | "
f"{d['both_style_consistency']} | {d['both_uncertain']} | "
f"{d['both_hand_signed']} | {d['mixed']} | "
f"**{d['agreement_rate']*100:.2f}%** |"
)
md += [
'',
'## Interpretation',
'',
'Under firmwide stamping practice the two engagement partners on a',
'given report should both exhibit high-confidence non-hand-signed',
'classifications. High intra-report agreement at Firm A (Deloitte) is',
'consistent with uniform firm-level stamping; declining agreement at',
'the other Big-4 firms reflects the interview evidence that stamping',
'was applied only to a subset of partners.',
'',
'Mixed-classification reports (one signer non-hand-signed, the other',
'hand-signed or style-consistent) are flagged for sensitivity review.',
'Absent firmwide homogeneity, one would expect substantial mixed-rate',
'contamination even at Firm A; the observed Firm A mixed rate is a',
'direct empirical check on the identification assumption used in the',
'threshold calibration.',
]
(OUT / 'intra_report_report.md').write_text('\n'.join(md), encoding='utf-8')
print(f'Report: {OUT / "intra_report_report.md"}')
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()