Internal audit outsourcing in Australia

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 11-30

  Carey, Peter ^a   Subramaniam, Nava ^b   Ching, Karin Chua Wee ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Bank of America   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Assurance service; Internal audit; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644890734     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2006.00159.x     Document Type: Article

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