Independent Evaluation: Insights from Public Accounting

Evaluation Review

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 186-219

  Brown, Abigail B ^a   Klerman, Jacob Alex ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

auditing; contracting for evaluations; independence; Sarbanes Oxley Act

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864294287     PISSN: 0193841X     EISSN: 15523926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0193841X12450163     Document Type: Review

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