Inherent risk and indicative factors: Senior auditors’ perceptions

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 455-464

  Shailer, Gregory ^a   Wade, Margo ^b   Willett, Roger ^c   Len Yap, Kim ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d Malaysian Inst of Economic Research   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Assessment; Auditing profession; Auditors; Employee attitudes; Perceptions; Risk management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993000235     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686909810370551     Document Type: Article

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