The effects of accounting knowledge and context on the omission of opportunity costs in resource allocation decisions

Accounting Review

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 47-72

  Vera Muñoz, Sandra C ^a  

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Author keywords

Accounting knowledge; Decision context; Knowledge structures; Opportunity costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031627264     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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