The Value Relevance of Accounting: The Rest of the Story

European Management Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 675-682

  Wallace, Wanda ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounting for errors; Frauds; Investigations; Restatements; Stock prices; Value Line evaluations; Value relevance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345807649     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0263-2373(00)00058-X     Document Type: Article

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