...Nasser Alsadoun; Vic Naiker; Farshid Navissi; Divesh S. Sharma SUMMARY Although the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) banned most nonaudit services (NAS), it did not restrict auditors from providing tax NAS to their audit clients. In the post-SOX period, regulators and investors are highly...

... audit committee auditor independence accruals corporate governance fees, earnings management nonaudit This study investigates how the association between the economic importance of a client to the auditor and earnings management is moderated by the audit committee. This is the first...