Auditors' and investors' perceptions of the "expectation gap"

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 345-358

  McEnroe, John E ^a   Martens, Stanley C ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attest function; Expectation gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 12144250527     PISSN: 08887993     EISSN: 15587975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/acch.2001.15.4.345     Document Type: Article

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