Reporting bias with an audit committee

Accounting Review

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 447-481

  Caskey, Judson ^a   Nagar, Venky ^b   Petacchi, Paolo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit committee; Bias; Disclosure; Reporting discretion; Sarbanes Oxley

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951786388     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2010.85.2.447     Document Type: Article

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