UK fund managers, audit regulation and the new Accountancy Foundation: towards a narrowing of the audit expectations gap?

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 537-545

  Dewing, Ian P ^a   Russell, Peter O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounting; Audit; Discipline; Monitoring; Regulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986059587     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686900210447533     Document Type: Article

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