Development of a scale to measure professional skepticism

Auditing

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 149-171

  Hurtt, R Kathy ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Professional skepticism; Scale development; Trait skepticism

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956568671     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: 15587991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2010.29.1.149     Document Type: Article

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