Effect of different types of feedback on the level of auditors' configural information processing

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 301-318

  Leung, Patrick W ^a   Trotman, Ken T ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Auditor judgements; Configural information processing; Feedback

Indexed keywords

EID: 43649101816     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2007.00238.x     Document Type: Article

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