Corporate Governance and the Audit Process

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 573-594

  Cohen, Jeffrey ^a   Krishnamoorthy, Ganesh ^b   Wright, Arnold M ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit committee; Audit process; Board of directors; Corporate governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347939861     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1506/983M-EPXG-4Y0R-J9YK     Document Type: Article

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