The association between audit committees, compensation incentives, and corporate audit fees

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 241-255

  Vafeas, Nikos ^a   Waegelein, James F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit committees; Audit fees; Executive compensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847274801     PISSN: 0924865X     EISSN: 15737179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11156-006-0012-9     Document Type: Article

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