The effects of immediate context on auditors' judgments of loan quality

Auditing

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 89-105

  O'Reilly, Dennis M ^a   Leitch, Robert A ^b   Wedell, Douglas H ^b  

^a XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditor judgment; Bias; Context; Contrast effect; Loan evaluation; Range frequency theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142651446     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2004.23.1.89     Document Type: Article

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