Auditor tenure and perceptions of audit quality

Accounting Review

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 585-612

  Ghosh, Aloke ^a,b   Moon, Doocheol ^c  

^a United States Securities and Exchange Commission   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit quality; Auditor independence; Auditor tenure; Capital market perceptions; Earnings quality; Mandatory auditor rotation

Indexed keywords

EID: 18944364542     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2005.80.2.585     Document Type: Article

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