Charitable organizations' strategies and program-spending ratios

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 329-343

  Baber, William R ^a   Roberts, Andrea Alston ^b   Visvanathan, Gnanakumar ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0345326420     PISSN: 08887993     EISSN: 15587975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/acch.2001.15.4.329     Document Type: Article

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