The balanced scorecard: The effects of assurance and process accountability on managerial judgment

Accounting Review

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1075-1094

  Libby, Theresa ^a   Salterio, Steven E ^b   Webb, Alan ^c  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assurance; Balanced scorecard; Debiasing; Justification; Performance evaluation; Performance measures; Process accountability

Indexed keywords

EID: 8744231008     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2004.79.4.1075     Document Type: Article

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