The effect of Auditing Standard No. 5 on audit fees

Auditing

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1-27

  Krishnan, Jagan ^a   Krishnan, Jayanthi ^a   Song, Hakjoon ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AS5; Audit fee; Audit quality; PCAOB; SOX 404

Indexed keywords

EID: 82355168977     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: 15587991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-10173     Document Type: Article

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