Matching electronic communication media and audit tasks

International Journal of Accounting Information Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-55

  Nöteberg, Anna ^a   Benford, Tanya L ^b   Hunton, James E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit tasks; Client inquiry; Experience; Interactivity; Media richness; Reprocessability; Task equivocality; Task performance; Time pressure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038648785     PISSN: 14670895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1467-0895(03)00003-4     Document Type: Article

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