Short-term accruals and the pricing and production of audit services

Auditing

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 221-250

  Schelleman, Caren ^a   Knechel, W Robert ^a,b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accruals; Audit fees; Audit pricing; Audit production; Earnings management

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956608746     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: 15587991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2010.29.1.221     Document Type: Article

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