The primacy of "present fairly" in the auditor's report

Accounting Perspectives

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-20

  Zeff, Stephen A ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditing standards; Auditor's report; Present fairly

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947104148     PISSN: 1911382X     EISSN: 19113838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1506/E773-5521-86U6-L3M0     Document Type: Article

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