Sarbanes Oxley Internal Control Requirements and Earnings Quality
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- 1 January 2006
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- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
This study investigates whether the internal control requirements of Section 302 and Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 are related to improved earniKeywords
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