Audit committees, boards of directors, and remediation of material weaknesses in internal control

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 549-579

  Goh, Beng Wee ^a  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Audit committee; Board of directors; Internal control; Sarbanes Oxley Act

Indexed keywords

EID: 74849083665     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: 19113846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1506/car.26.2.9     Document Type: Article

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