An empirical study of the effects of audit committees, disclosure of nonaudit fees, and other issues on audit independence: Malaysian evidence

Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 231-248

  Teoh, Hai Yap ^a   Lim, Chui Choo ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Audit committees; Auditor independence; Management consultancy services; Nonaudit fee disclosure; Repeated measures experimental design; Rotation of audit firm; Size of audit fee

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030499006     PISSN: 10619518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1061-9518(96)90007-5     Document Type: Article

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