The effect of risk of misstatement on the propensity to commit reduced audit quality acts under time budget pressure

Auditing

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 159-167

  Coram, Paul ^a   Ng, Juliana ^b   Woodliff, David R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Audit quality; Audit time budgets; Reduced audit quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 8744271226     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2004.23.2.159     Document Type: Article

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