Danish Evidence of Auditors' Level of Moral Reasoning and Predisposition to Provide Fair Judgements

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 77-88

  Warming Rasmussen, Bent ^a   Windsor, Carolyn A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Auditors' fair and independent opinion; Just reasoning; Kohlberg's theory of moral development

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347301603     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026044615768     Document Type: Article

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