Enduring fundamentals: Constitutional accountability and auditors-general in the reluctant state

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 14, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 107-132

  Funnell, Warwick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

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EID: 0037244686     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cpac.2002.0519     Document Type: Review

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