Audit quality indicators: A status update on possible public disclosures and insights from audit practice

Current Issues in Auditing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Bedard, Jean C ^a   Johnstone, Karla M ^b   Smith, Edward F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit practice; Audit quality; Disclosure

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052774625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19361270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/ciia.2010.4.1.C12     Document Type: Note

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