The effect of moods on auditors' inventory valuation decisions

Auditing

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 137-159

  Chung, Janne O Y ^a   Cohen, Jeffrey R ^b   Monroe, Gary S ^c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Auditors' conservatism; Consensus; Inventory valuation judgments; Moods

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249092501     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: 15587991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2008.27.2.137     Document Type: Article

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