The Mispricing of Abnormal Accruals

Accounting Review

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 357-373

  Xie, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Abnormal accruals; Accruals; Discretionary accruals; Mispricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035639864     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2001.76.3.357     Document Type: Article

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