Contingent economic rents: Insidious threats to audit independence

Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research

Volumn 5, Issue , 2002, Pages 21-50

  Beeler, Jesse D ^a   Hunton, James E ^a  

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EID: 33645743494     PISSN: 14751488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-7979(02)05036-6     Document Type: Article

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