Corporate disclosure quality, earnings smoothing, and earnings' timeliness

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1043-1050

  Shaw, Kenneth W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Disclosure; Discretionary accruals; Earnings smoothing; Timeliness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041863974     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0148-2963(01)00328-9     Document Type: Article

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