No Need to Compromise: Evidence of Public Accounting's Changing Culture Regarding Budgetary Performance

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 151-163

  Buchheit, Steve ^a   Pasewark Jr , William R ^a   Strawser, Jerry R ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditor time budgets; Eating hours; Ethical ambivalence; Underreport time

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346494366     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021965119896     Document Type: Review

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