An empirical analysis of the likelihood of detecting fraud in New Zealand

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 192-204

  OwusuAnsah, Stephen ^a   Moyes, Glen David ^a   Babangida Oyelere, Peter ^b   Hay, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Audit; Fraud; Stock; Warehousing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986156456     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686900210424358     Document Type: Article

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