Economic incentives for voluntary reporting on internal risk management and control systems

Auditing

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-66

  Deumes, Rogier ^a   Knechel, W Robert ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency conflicts; Internal control; Risk management; Voluntary disclosure

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649143486     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: 15587991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2008.27.1.35     Document Type: Article

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