Lenard, Mary Jane; Petruska, Karin A.; Alam, Pervaiz; … - In: Managerial Auditing Journal 27 (2012) July, pp. 500-525
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare the effect of corporate governance variables and fraud litigation on audit fees both before and after the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act in 2002. Design/methodology/approach – The paper utilizes a sample of firms that had...