To study the effect of audit market concentration on auditors' job stress and audit quality of Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) Listed Companies

Subject Areas : Financial Accounting

Farhan Bengoriz ¹ , narges Khosravipoor ² , Nurooz Noroolahzadeh ³

1 - Department of Accounting, Kish International Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kish Island, Iran
2 - Department of Accounting, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of Accounting, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2019-02-04 Accepted : 2019-04-08 Published : 2020-01-01

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