Áudiimg and eamings management in the large non-financial Spanish firm;Auditoría y discrecionalidad contable en la gran empresa no financiera española

Revista Espanola de Financiacion y Contabilidad

Volumn 36, Issue 135, 2007, Pages 569-594

  Bertill , Mauricio Alejandro Jara ^a   Itlirriaga, Félix Javier López ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Auditing; Boards of directora; Eamings management, corporate governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953784717     PISSN: 02102412     EISSN: 02102412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02102412.2007.10779630     Document Type: Article

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