Going-concern opinions in the "New" legal environment

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 17-26

  Geiger, Marshall A ^a   Raghunandan, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0346982636     PISSN: 08887993     EISSN: 15587975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/acch.2002.16.1.17     Document Type: Article

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