Audit fees, non-audit fees and auditor going-concern reporting decisions in the United Kingdom

Abacus

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 284-309

  Basioudis, Ilias G ^a   Papakonstantinou, Evangelos ^a   Geiger, Marshall A ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditing: audit fees, opinion; Going concern; Non audit fees; U.K.

Indexed keywords

EID: 49849104634     PISSN: 00013072     EISSN: 14676281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6281.2008.00263.x     Document Type: Article

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