An empirical analysis of voluntarily supplied client-auditor realignment reasons

Auditing

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 107-121

  Sankaraguruswamy, Srinivasan ^a   Whisenant, J Scott ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit markets; Auditor realignments; Disclosure regulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142579280     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2004.23.1.107     Document Type: Article

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