The Impact of Internal Auditor Compensation and Role on External Auditors' Planning Judgments and Decisions

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 257-281

  Dezoort, F Todd ^a   Houston, Richard W ^a   Peters, Michael F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit task subjectivity; Internal auditor compensation; Internal auditor consulting; Reliance on internal auditors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347668633     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1506/7ERQ-LD54-BTQV-TUVE     Document Type: Article

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