Management Demographic Characteristics, Auditor Choice and Earnings Quality: Empirical Evidence from Iran

Subject Areas : Financial Accounting

Mehdi Safari Gerayli ¹ , Davood Hassanpour ² , Hasan Valiyan ³

1 - Department of Accounting, Bandargaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandargaz, Iran
2 - Department of Accounting, Payame Noor University (PNU), Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of management, Gorgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Gorgan, Iran

Received: 2019-01-01 Accepted : 2019-03-12 Published : 2019-07-01

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