Firm versus partner measures of auditor industry expertise and effects on auditor quality

Auditing

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 201-229

  Chi, Hsin Yi ^a   Chin, Chen Lung ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Audit quality; Discretionary accruals; Individual partner industry expertise; Modified audit opinion

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051723478     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: 15587991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-50004     Document Type: Article

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