Journal of
Accounting and Taxation

  • Abbreviation: J. Account. Taxation
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2141-6664
  • DOI: 10.5897/JAT
  • Start Year: 2009
  • Published Articles: 209

Full Length Research Paper

Board-diversity, audit committee characteristics and earnings management: Family versus non-family controlled firms

Uddin Mohammad Helal
  • Uddin Mohammad Helal
  • 1School of Economics and Management, Southwest Jiao tong University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. 2Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Business studies, International Islamic University, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
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  •  Received: 10 March 2022
  •  Published: 29 April 2022

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