Auditor industry specialization and earnings quality

Auditing

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 71-97

  Balsam, Steven ^a   Krishnan, Jagan ^a   Yang, Joon S ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit quality; Discretionary accruals; Earnings response coefficient; Industry specialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 2642558120     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2003.22.2.71     Document Type: Article

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