The effects of audit risk and information importance on auditor memory during working paper review

Accounting Review

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 475-502

  Sprinkle, Geoffrey B ^a   Tubbs, Richard M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Audit risk; Information importance; Memory; Working paper review

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032339272     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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