The impact of managing director changes and financial distress on audit qualification and auditor switching

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 32, Issue 9-10, 2005, Pages 1703-1739

  Hudaib, Mohammad ^a,b   Cooke, T E ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audit qualification; Auditor independence; Auditor switching; Change in managing director; Financial distress

Indexed keywords

EID: 29244442565     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0306-686X.2005.00645.x     Document Type: Article

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