The Regulation of Public Company Auditing: Evidence from the Transition to AS5

Journal of Accounting Research

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 795-814

  Doogar, Rajib ^a   Sivadasan, Padmakumar ^a   Solomon, Ira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 77955163798     PISSN: 00218456     EISSN: 1475679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-679X.2010.00380.x     Document Type: Article

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