The Value Relevance of the Foreign Translation Adjustment

Accounting Review

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1027-1047

  Louis, Henock ^a  

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EID: 0242427762     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2003.78.4.1027     Document Type: Article

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