A multistage approach to external auditors' evaluation of the internal audit function

Auditing

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 95-121

  Krishnamoorthy, Ganesh ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Belief revision; Internal audit function; Multistage (cascaded) inference theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039484454     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2002.21.1.95     Document Type: Article

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