A synthesis of fraud-related research

Auditing

Volumn 32, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages 287-321

  Trompeter, Gregory M ^a   Carpenter, Tina D ^b   Desai, Naman ^a   Jones, Keith L ^c   Riley, Richard A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditing; Fraud; Literature review; SAS 99

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873625927     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: 15587991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-50360     Document Type: Article

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