Outside Directors, Board Effectiveness, and Earnings Management
Preprint
- 1 January 1998
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
Corporate law defines an explicit responsibility for boards of directors in the financial reporting process. In so doing it raises the expectation that boards wKeywords
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