Voluntary audits versus mandatory audits

Accounting Review

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1655-1678

  Lennox, Clive S ^a   Pittman, Jeffrey A ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Credit ratings; Mandatory audits; Voluntary audits

Indexed keywords

EID: 80155204470     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr-10098     Document Type: Article

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