Audit Market Concentration and Auditor Tolerance for Earnings Management

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1171-1203

  Boone, Jeff P ^a   Khurana, Inder K ^b   Raman, K K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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EID: 84871432637     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: 19113846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1911-3846.2011.01144.x     Document Type: Article

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