Internal governance structures and earnings management

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 241-267

  Davidson, Ryan ^a   Goodwin Stewart, Jenny ^b   Kent, Pamela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Audit committee; Corporate governance; Earnings management; Internal audit function

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944436195     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629x.2004.00132.x     Document Type: Article

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