The impact of SOX section 404 internal control quality assessment on audit delay in the SOX era

Auditing

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1-23

  Ettredge, Michael L ^a   Li, Chan ^a   Sun, Lili ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit delay; Filing deadline; Internal control; SOX 404

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149131630     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: 15587991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2006.25.2.1     Document Type: Article

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