Audit costs, material weaknesses under SOX Section 404

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 661-673

  Foster, Benjamin P ^a   Ornstein, William ^a   Shastri, Trimbak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditing; Compliance costs; Financial reporting

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547176740     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686900710772573     Document Type: Article

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