As the venture capital industry matures and competition increases, understanding the processes by which entrepreneurs select venture capitalists will become increasingly important. Empirical work suggests that awareness of venture capital firms is still low and that the specialist financial and...

Purpose: There has been very little qualitative “fieldwork” of audit practice. This is especially the case in relation to investigations into how audit engagements proceed. The purpose of this paper is to engage with audit practice in order to explore and explain the internal dynamics and...

Grahame Boocock and Margaret Woods are Lecturers in Banking and Finance, andFinancial Management, respectively at Loughborough University Business School,England. The paper examines how venture fund managers select their investeecompanies, by exploring the evaluation criteria and the decision...