A framework for understanding and researching audit quality

Auditing

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 125-152

  Francis, Jere R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-50006     Document Type: Article

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