Audit Evidence Planning: An Examination of Industry Error Characteristics

Auditing

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1996, Pages

  Maletta, Mario ^a   Wright, Arnold ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Error cause; Error detection; Error incidence; Financial statement errors; Industry differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040665697     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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