Assessing Potential Accounting Manipulation: The Financial Characteristics of Charitable Organizations with Higher than Expected Program-Spending Ratios

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 616-634

  Trussel, John ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounting manipulation; Fraudulent financial reporting; Nonprofit financial management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344585454     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764003257459     Document Type: Conference Paper

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