Sarbanes-Oxley and audit failure: A critical examination

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 340-350

  Tackett, James ^a   Wolf, Fran ^a   Claypool, Gregory ^a  

^a YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit committees; Auditing; Auditing standards; Fatigue

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993009096     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686900410524355     Document Type: Article

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