The impact of codes of ethics and experience on auditor judgments

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 566-589

  Pflugrath, Gary ^a   Martinov Bennie, Nonna ^b   Chen, Liang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Auditing; Competences; Ethics; Standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347398664     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686900710759389     Document Type: Article

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