Alternative perspectives to deal with auditors' agency problem

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 451-467

  Gavious, Ilanit ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Accounting fraud; Agency problem; Auditor independence; Auditor's conflict of interests; Enron; Financial statement fraud; Misrepresentation in financial statements; Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947213490     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: 10959955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2006.01.011     Document Type: Article

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