Accountability and auditors' judgments about contingent events

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 379-398

  Buchman, Thomas A ^a   Tetlock, Philip E ^b   Reed, Ronald O ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b University of California ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 0001291120     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.1996.tb01128.x     Document Type: Article

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