Income Smoothing and Discretionary R&D Expenditures of Japanese Firms

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 263-302

  Mande, Vivek ^a   File, Richard G ^a   Kwak, Wikil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

Earnings management; Income smoothing; Japanese managers; R D expenditures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142197528     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1506/QXBV-UY71-A6W1-FWT4     Document Type: Article

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