Market reactions to disclosure of reportable events

Auditing

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 181-194

  Whisenant, J Scott ^a   Sankaraguruswamy, Srinivasan ^b,c   Raghunandan, K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b Securities Exch Commn Off EA

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Texas A/M Intlernational University   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditor changes; Financial disclosure reliability; Reportable events

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142580910     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2003.22.1.181     Document Type: Article

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