Understanding fraud in the accounting environment

Managerial Finance

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 33-41

  Riahi Belkaoui, Ahmed ^a   Picur, Ronald D ^a  

^a Department of Information and Decision Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Accountanting; Fraud; USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006588661     PISSN: 03074358     EISSN: 17587743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074350010766972     Document Type: Article

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