Board, audit committee, culture and earnings management: Malaysian evidence

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 783-804

  Rahman, Rashidah Abdul ^a   Mohamed Ali, Fairuzana Haneem ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^b Universiti Tenaga Nasional   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Audit committees; Boards of directors; Culture; Earnings; Malaysia

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746682457     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686900610680549     Document Type: Article

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