Board monitoring and earnings management: Do outside directors influence abnormal accruals?

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 32, Issue 7-8, 2005, Pages 1311-1346

  Peasnell, K V ^a,b   Pope, P F ^a   Young, S ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abnormal accruals; Boards of directors; Corporate governance; Earnings management

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844442294     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0306-686X.2005.00630.x     Document Type: Review

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