Audit committee composition and shareholder actions: Evidence from voting on auditor ratification

Auditing

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 253-263

  Raghunandan, K ^a   Rama, Dasaratha V ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit committee; Nonaudit services; Shareholder ratification

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142580912     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2003.22.2.253     Document Type: Review

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