Audit Strategies and Multiple Fraud Opportunities of Misreporting and Defalcation

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 519-549

  Patterson, Evelyn ^a   Noel, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit strategy; Defalcation; Fraud opportunity; Misreporting

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542399169     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1506/F9KW-QM6U-6NXF-QCUN     Document Type: Review

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