Allocating internal audit resources to minimize detection risk due to theft

Auditing

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 80-82

  Newman, D Paul ^a   Park, Jaewan ^b   Smith, J Reed ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Dongguk University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit allocations; Auditing for theft; Strategic auditing

Indexed keywords

EID: 20044386715     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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