Auditors' knowledge content and judgment performance: A cognitive script approach

Accounting, Organizations and Society

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 339-359

  Choo, Freddie ^a  

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DOI: 10.1016/0361-3682(95)00048-8     Document Type: Article

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