Free-form reporting and perceptions of the audit

British Accounting Review

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-38

  Hatherly, David J ^a   Brown, Tom ^b   Innes, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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EID: 0032017843     PISSN: 08908389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bare.1997.0057     Document Type: Article

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