The impact of the public's expectations of auditors on audit quality and auditing standards compliance

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 631-654

  Zhang, Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Audit quality; Auditor liability; Expectations gap; Standards compliance

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547800659     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: 19113846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1506/T776-2658-Q417-1110     Document Type: Article

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