Auditor realignments accompanying implementation of SOX 404 ICFR reporting requirements

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-39

  Ettredge, Michael ^a   Heintz, James ^a   Li, Chan ^b   Scholz, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditor realignments; Dismissals; Internal control; Remediation; SOX section 404

Indexed keywords

EID: 82055178432     PISSN: 08887993     EISSN: 15587975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/acch.2011.25.1.17     Document Type: Article

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