Accounting policy choice: The relationship between corporate tax burdens and company size

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 25, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 265-288

  Holland, Kevin ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0000152106     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5957.00187     Document Type: Article

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