The effects of judgments of new clients' integrity upon risk judgments, audit evidence, and fees

Auditing

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 85-99

  Beaulieu, Philip R ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Audit evidence; Business risk; Combined risk; Fraud; Source credibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038897448     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2001.20.2.85     Document Type: Article

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