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Accounting, Corporate Governance & Business Ethics

Audit pricing puzzle: Do audit firm industry specialization and audit report lag matter?

Ebenezer Nana Yeboah1 Export Oriented Management, Hainan Tropical Ocean University, Sanya, P.R. ChinaView further author information
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Bismark Addai2 School of Economics and Management, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, P.R. ChinaCorrespondence[email protected] [email protected]
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Kingsley Opoku Appiah3 School of Business, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, GhanaView further author information
Article: 2172013 | Received 15 Nov 2022, Accepted 19 Jan 2023, Published online: 19 Feb 2023

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