Recent trends inaudit report and earnings announcement lags

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 265-288

  Krishnan, Jayanthi ^a   Yang, Joon S ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sogang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Audit lag; Earnings announcement lag; Earnings quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77349118037     PISSN: 08887993     EISSN: 15587975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/acch.2009.23.3.265     Document Type: Article

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