The effects of firm-wide and office-level industry expertise on audit pricing

Accounting Review

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 429-448

  Ferguson, Andrew ^b   Francis, Jere R ^b   Stokes, Donald J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Audit fees; Big 5 accounting firms; Industry expertise

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038400991     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2003.78.2.429     Document Type: Article

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