An empirical study on the impact of culture on audit-detected accounting errors

Auditing

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 281-295

  Chan, K Hung ^a   Lin, Kenny Z ^a   Mo, Phyllis Lai Lan ^b  

^a LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Audit detected accounting errors; Cultural influence; Individualism; Power distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142616433     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2003.22.2.281     Document Type: Review

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