The development and transferability of task knowledge

Auditing

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-67

  Thibodeau, Jay C ^a  

^a BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Going concern; Knowledge management; Knowledge transfer; Loan credit review; Task knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142616891     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2003.22.1.47     Document Type: Article

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