An examination of the effect that commitment to a hypothesis has on auditors' evaluations of confirming and disconfirming evidence*
- 1 March 1991
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Contemporary Accounting Research
- Vol. 7 (2) , 513-534
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1911-3846.1991.tb00827.x
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