The effect of IT controls on financial reporting

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 803-823

  Grant, Gerry H ^a   Miller, Karen C ^b   Alali, Fatima ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communications technologies; Financial reporting; Legislation; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 53249105529     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686900810899536     Document Type: Article

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