The use of fixed GAAP provisions in debt contracts

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 78-91

  Mohrman, Mary Beth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

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EID: 0002682611     PISSN: 08887993     EISSN: 15587975     Source Type: Journal    
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