Factors Associated with the Incidence of Reduced Audit Quality Behaviors

Auditing

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1996, Pages

  Malone, Charles F ^a   Roberts, Robin W ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit quality; False signoff; Reduced audit quality behaviors

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542468055     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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