Internalaudit sourcing arrangements and reliance by externalauditors

Auditing

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 149-171

  Desai, Naman K ^a   Gerard, Gregory J ^b   Tripathy, Arindam ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosourcing; External auditor reliance; Internal audit; Sourcing

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051772159     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: 15587991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2011.30.1.149     Document Type: Article

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