Evidence from china on whether harmonized accounting standards harmonize accounting practices

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 183-197

  Chen, Shimin ^a,b   Sun, Zheng ^c   Wang, Yuetang ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 1142291037     PISSN: 08887993     EISSN: 15587975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/acch.2002.16.3.183     Document Type: Article

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