An empirical analysis of the relation between the board of director composition and financial statement fraud

Accounting Review

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 443-465

  Beasley, Mark S ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Audit committees; Board of director composition; Corporate governance; Financial statement fraud

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030305316     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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