Generic skills in audit education

Accounting Education

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 115-131

  Crawford, Louise ^a   Helliar, Christine ^a   Monk, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounting education; Audit education; Generic skills; IESs; Institutional theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959514848     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639284.2011.557487     Document Type: Article

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