Audit office size, audit quality, and audit pricing

Auditing

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 73-97

  Choi, Jong Hag ^a   Kim, Chansog ^b   Kim, Jeong Bon ^b   Zang, Yoonseok ^c  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Audit office; Audit pricing; Audit quality; Office size

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956078407     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: 15587991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2010.29.1.73     Document Type: Article

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