Time budget pressure, auditors' personality type, and the incidence of reduced audit quality practices

Pacific Accounting Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 125-152

  Gundry, Leanne C ^a   Liyanarachchi, Gregory A ^b  

^a Deloitte   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Auditors; New Zealand; Psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 80155212871     PISSN: 01140582     EISSN: 20415494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01140580710819898     Document Type: Article

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