Negotiations over accounting issues: The congruency of audit partner and chief financial officer recalls

Auditing

Volumn 24, Issue SUPPL., 2005, Pages 171-193

  Gibbins, Michael ^a   McCracken, Susan A ^b   Salterio, Steven E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accounting negotiation; Audit partner; Chief financial officer

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645745881     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2005.24.supplement.171     Document Type: Conference Paper

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