Crunch time for bank audits? Questions of practice and the scope for dialogue

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 114-134

  Woods, Margaret ^a   Humphrey, Christopher ^b   Dowd, Kevin ^a   Liu, Yu Lin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditing; Auditors; Banks; Recession; World economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 59949086823     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686900910924545     Document Type: Review

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