The auditor's going-concern disclosure as a self-fulfilling prophecy: A discrete-time survival analysis

Decision Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 805-824

  Louwers, Timothy J ^a   Messina, Frank M ^b   Richard, Michael D ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit; Discrete Time Survival Analysis; Going Concern; Logit Modeling; Self Fulfilling Prophecy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040707334     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1999.tb00907.x     Document Type: Article

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