The audit crunch: Reforming auditing

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 135-155

  Sikka, Prem ^a   Filling, Steven ^b   Liew, Pik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditing; Auditors; Banks; Capital markets; Financial economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 59949083966     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686900910924554     Document Type: Review

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