Audit committee, board characteristics, and auditor switch decisions by andersen's clients

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1085-1117

  Chen, Ken Y ^a   Zhou, Jian ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit committee financial expertise; Audit committee independence; Audit committee meetings; Audit committee size; Board independence

Indexed keywords

EID: 37549034263     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: 19113846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1506/car.24.4.2     Document Type: Article

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