Did the Waste Management Audit Failures Signal Lower Firm-Wide Audit Quality at Arthur Andersen? *
2011; Wiley; Volume: 28; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1911-3846.2011.01068.x
ISSN1911-3846
AutoresSteven F. Cahan, Wei Zhang, David Veenman,
Tópico(s)Financial Reporting and Valuation Research
ResumoContemporary Accounting ResearchVolume 28, Issue 3 p. 859-891 Did the Waste Management Audit Failures Signal Lower Firm-Wide Audit Quality at Arthur Andersen? * Steven Cahan, Steven Cahan University of AucklandSearch for more papers by this authorWei Zhang, Wei Zhang State University of New York at AlbanySearch for more papers by this authorDavid Veenman, David Veenman University of AmsterdamSearch for more papers by this author Steven Cahan, Steven Cahan University of AucklandSearch for more papers by this authorWei Zhang, Wei Zhang State University of New York at AlbanySearch for more papers by this authorDavid Veenman, David Veenman University of AmsterdamSearch for more papers by this author First published: 14 March 2011 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1911-3846.2011.01068.xCitations: 14 † Accepted by Michael Willenborg. We would like to thank two anonymous reviewers, Michael Willenborg (associate editor), David Emanuel, Jane Hamilton, Clive Lennox, Asheq Rahman, Nives Botica Redmayne, Donald Stokes, Steve Taylor, Jilnaught Wong, Anne Wyatt, and seminar participants at Griffith University, Nanyang Technological University, Rutgers University – Camden, SungKyunKwan University, Southern Illinois University, SUNY Albany, University of Florida, University of Pretoria, and the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference for their comments. We also appreciate the research assistance of Jerry Sun and financial support provided by the University of Auckland Business School. 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