Audit partner tenure and audit planning and pricing

Auditing

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 45-70

  Bedard, Jean C ^a   Johnstone, Karla M ^b  

^a BENTLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit effort; Audit partner tenure; Audit pricing; Risk management; Rotation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149298725     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: 15587991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2010.29.2.45     Document Type: Article

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