The effects of moral reasoning and self-monitoring on CFO intentions to report fraudulently on financial statements

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 15-32

  Uddin, Nancy ^a   Gillett, Peter R ^b  

^a MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Financial statement fraud; Moral reasoning; Reasoned action model; Self monitoring; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141671730     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019931524716     Document Type: Article

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