Fifteen years in the trenches: Auditor-client negotiations exposed and explored

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 52, Issue SUPPL.1, 2012, Pages 233-286

  Salterio, Steven E ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Archival; Audit delay; Auditor; Client; D21; Experimental; G32; M41; Model; Negotiation; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867231809     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2012.00499.x     Document Type: Article

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