Client-acceptance decisions: Simultaneous effects of client business risk, audit risk, auditor business risk, and risk adaptation

Auditing

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-25

  Johnstone, Karla M ^a  

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Author keywords

Client acceptance; Risk adaptation; Risk evaluation; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040568461     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2000.19.1.1     Document Type: Article

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