The Difficult Client-Acceptance Decision in Canadian Audit Firms: A Field Investigation

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 283-310

  Gendron, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Client acceptance decision; Commercialism; Mechanistic organic approaches; Professionalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005908519     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1506/P0UJ-34QW-7MNE-0FJF     Document Type: Article

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