Bridging the credibility of GAAP: Individual donors and the new accounting standards for nonprofit organizations

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 45-68

  Khumawala, Saleha B ^a   Gordon, Teresa P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

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