Education requirements,audit fees, and audit quality

Auditing

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1-25

  Allen, Arthur ^a   Woodland, Angela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

150 hour requirement; Audit fees; Education

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149312770     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: 15587991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/aud.2010.29.2.1     Document Type: Article

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