A review of the earnings management literature and its implications for standard setting

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 365-383

  Healy, Paul M ^a   Wahlen, James M ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001574630     PISSN: 08887993     EISSN: 15587975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/acch.1999.13.4.365     Document Type: Note

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