Corporate governance research in accounting and auditing: Insights, practice implications, and future research directions

Auditing

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1-31

  Carcello, Joseph V ^a   Hermanson, Dana R ^b   Ye, Zhongxia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit committee; Board; Corporate governance; Literature review

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052234081     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: 15587991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-10112     Document Type: Article

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