Corporate governance, audit quality, and the sarbanes-oxley act: Evidence from internal audit outsourcing

Accounting Review

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 803-835

  Abbott, Lawrence J ^a   Parker, Susan ^b   Peters, Gary F ^c   Rama, Dasaratha V ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^d FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit committees; Audit quality; Internal audit; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548222564     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2007.82.4.803     Document Type: Article

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