Unravelling the rhetoric about the financial reporting of public collections as assets: A response to Micallef and Peirson

Australian Accounting Review

Volumn 9, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 16-21

  Carnegie, Garry ^a   Wolnizer, Peter ^b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 0012625701     PISSN: 10356908     EISSN: 18352561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1835-2561.1999.tb00095.x     Document Type: Article

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