The moral intensity of reduced audit quality acts

Auditing

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 127-149

  Coram, Paul ^a   Glavovic, Alma ^b   Ng, Juliana ^c   Woodliff, David R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Adamson and Cross Chartered Accountants ^*

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ethical judgments; Moral intensity; Moral issues; Reduced audit quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649163506     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: 15587991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2008.27.1.127     Document Type: Article

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