Revenue manipulation and restatements by loss firms

Auditing

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1-29

  Callen, Jeffrey L ^a   Robb, Sean W G ^b   Segal, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditing; Earnings management; Restatements; Revenue manipulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249119215     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: 15587991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2008.27.2.1     Document Type: Article

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