The new governmental reporting model: Is it a "field of dreams"?

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 91-101

  Copley, Paul A ^a   Cheng, Rita Hartung ^a   Harris, Jean E ^a   Icerman, Rhoda C ^a   Johnson, Walter L ^a   Smith, G Robert ^a   Smith, Kenneth A ^a   Wrege, W T ^a   Yahr, Robert ^a  

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