What do we know about audit quality?

British Accounting Review

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 345-368

  Francis, Jere R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Audit failure rates; Audit quality; Sarbanes Oxley Act

Indexed keywords

EID: 8644242295     PISSN: 08908389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2004.09.003     Document Type: Article

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