Personality issues and their impact on accounting and auditing

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 453-460

  Smith, Malcolm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognition; Decision making; Gender; Information processing; Personality tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986085469     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686909910301538     Document Type: Review

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