Another piece of the "expectations gap": What do investors know about auditor involvement with information in the annual report?

Current Issues in Auditing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Bedard, Jean C ^a,b   Sutton, Steve G ^c   Arnold, Vicky ^c   Phillips, Jillian R ^d  

^a BENTLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Assurance; Auditing; Financial reporting; Management discussion and analysis; MD and A; Nonfinancial information

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863940121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19361270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/ciia-50120     Document Type: Article

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