The association between corporate governance and earnings quality: Further evidence using the GOV-Score

Advances in Accounting

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 191-201

  Jiang, Wei ^a   Lee, Picheng ^b   Anandarajan, Asokan ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Discretionary accruals; Earnings management; Sarbanes Oxley Act

Indexed keywords

EID: 56749178635     PISSN: 08826110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.adiac.2008.08.011     Document Type: Article

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