Auditor litigation risk and corporate disclosure of quarterly review report

Auditing

Volumn 24, Issue SUPPL., 2005, Pages 115-138

  Krishnan, Jagan ^a   Zhang, Yinqi ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Litigation risk; Review reports; Voluntary disclosure

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645749138     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2005.24.supplement.115     Document Type: Conference Paper

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