The rhetoric of teaching financial accounting on the corporate web: A critical review of content and metaphor in ibm's internet webpageguide to understanding financials

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 259-287

  Amernic, Joel H ^a   Craig, Russell J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0041781048     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cpac.1999.0337     Document Type: Article

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