The quality of financial statements: Perspectives from the recent stock market bubble

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL., 2003, Pages 77-96

  Penman, Stephen H ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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EID: 11144254668     PISSN: 08887993     EISSN: 15587975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/acch.2003.17.s-1.77     Document Type: Review

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