Decline of Auditor's Financial Bias in Decision making by Professionalism in Auditing: Rough Set Analysis

Subject Areas : Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and its Application in Financial Management

Jamal Jafari chashmi ¹ , Mohammadreza Abdoli ² , Hasan Valiyan ³

1 - Department of Accounting, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood, Iran
2 - Department of Accounting, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood, Iran
3 - Department of Accounting, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood, Iran

Received: 2019-09-01 Accepted : 2019-12-12 Published : 2023-05-01

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