Getting inside the black box: A field study of practices in "effective" audit committees

Auditing

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 153-171

  Gendron, Yves ^a   Bédard, Jean ^b   Gosselin, Maurice ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Audit committees; Corporate governance; Effectiveness; Field study; Meetings; Practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142546353     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2004.23.1.153     Document Type: Article

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