Earnings management through effective tax rates: The effects of tax-planning investment and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 447-471

  Cook, Kirsten A ^a   Huston, G Ryan ^b   Omer, Thomas C ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 45849145451     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: 19113846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1506/car.25.2.6     Document Type: Review

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