Assurance provided by auditors' reports on prospective financial information: Implications for the expectation gap

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 653-676

  Schelluch, Peter ^a   Gay, Grant ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assurance; Expectation gap; Prospective financial information

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750157144     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2006.00187.x     Document Type: Article

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