Lancaster University Management School

Working Paper
2001/014

Non-Audit Services, Auditor Independence and Earnings

Management

Pelham Gore, Peter Pope and Ashni Singh

The Department of Accounting and Finance

Lancaster University Management School
Lancaster LA1 4YX
UK

©Pelham Gore, Peter Pope and Ashni Singh

All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed
two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission,
provided that full acknowledgement is given.

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