Internal control quality and audit pricing under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Auditing

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 105-126

  Hoitash, Rani ^a   Hoitash, Udi ^b   Bedard, Jean C ^a,c  

^a BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Audit effort; Audit planning; Audit pricing; Internal control

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649135736     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: 15587991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2008.27.1.105     Document Type: Article

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