Evidence of the audit expectation gap in Singapore

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 134-144

  Best, Peter J ^a   Buckby, Sherrena ^a   Tan, Clarice ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Experimental Development Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Accounting information; Asia; Auditing profession; Financial reporting; Singapore

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986061539     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686900110385579     Document Type: Article

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