The impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on internal control remediation

International Journal of Accounting & Information Management

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 53-65

  Chan, Kam ^a   Kleinman, Gary ^b   Lee, Picheng ^a  

^a PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TOURO COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Financial reporting; Internal control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993089924     PISSN: 18347649     EISSN: 17589037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/18347640910967735     Document Type: Article

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