Differences in Conservatism between Big Eight and Non-Big Eight Auditors
Preprint
- 1 January 2001
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
Auditors’ incentives to be conservative are likely to vary both cross-sectionally and over time based on their legal liability exposure. We predict that Big EigKeywords
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