Determinants of audit committee diligence

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 265-279

  Raghunandan, K ^a   Rama, Dasaratha V ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit committee; Diligence; Financial expert

Indexed keywords

EID: 41949115658     PISSN: 08887993     EISSN: 15587975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/acch.2007.21.3.265     Document Type: Article

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