Audit disaster futures: Antidotes for the expectation gap?

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 468-478

  Wolf, Fran M ^a   Tackett, James A ^a   Claypool, Gregory A ^a  

^a YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit failure; Audit futures; Expectation gap; Market based measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986082155     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686909910301556     Document Type: Article

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