THE AMBIGUOUS IDENTITY OF AUDITING

Financial Accountability and Management

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 337-350

  Lindeberg, Tobias ^a  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

financial auditing; performance auditing; programme evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85036105353     PISSN: 02674424     EISSN: 14680408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0408.2007.00432.x     Document Type: Article

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