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Teaching Note | HBS Case Collection | March 2019

PCAOB Efforts to Improve Audit Quality (A) and (B)

by Aiyesha Dey and Paul Healy

Abstract

Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 118-108 and 118-109.

Language: English

Format: Print

13 pages

Citation:

Dey, Aiyesha, and Paul Healy. "PCAOB Efforts to Improve Audit Quality (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 119-017, July 2018.

About the Authors

Høegh Family Associate Professor of Business of Administration

Accounting and Management

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James R. Williston Professor of Business Administration

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