Moving the financial accounting research front forward: The UK contribution

British Accounting Review

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 85-114

  Beattie, Vivien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analytical; Archival; Case based research; Disclosure, Earnings management; Experimental; Graphs; MBAR; Narratives, Normative, Survey; Research areas; Research front; Review; Standard setting

Indexed keywords

EID: 13644281837     PISSN: 08908389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2004.09.004     Document Type: Article

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