Impact of the type of audit team discussions on auditors' generation of material frauds

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1115-1142

  Trotman, Ken T ^a   Simnett, Roger ^a   Khalifa, Amna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brainstorming; Fraud; Interacting groups; Mental simulation; Pre mortem strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 76249094661     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: 19113846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1506/car.26.4.5     Document Type: Article

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