Internal control reporting and audit report lags: Further evidence

Auditing

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 203-218

  Munsif, Vishal ^a   Raghunandan, K ^b   Rama, Dasaratha V ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit report lag; Internal control; Section 404

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865106782     PISSN: 02780380     EISSN: 15587991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/ajpt-50190     Document Type: Article

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