Determinants of audit preparers' workpaper justifications

Accounting Review

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 473-495

  Shankar, Premila Gowri ^a   Tan, Hun Tong ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Justification; Review process; Tacit managerial knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645918312     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2006.81.2.473     Document Type: Article

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