Using decision aids to improve auditors' conditional probability judgments

Accounting Review

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 221-240

  Bonner, Sarah E ^a   Libby, Robert ^a   Nelson, Mark W ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Audit judgment; Decision aids; Knowledge organization; Probability judgment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030306588     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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