Interaction between tax and accounting practice: Accounting for stock-in-trade

Accounting, Business and Financial History

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-34

  Noguchi, Masayoshi ^a  

^a Hokusei Gakiten University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Board of Inland Revenue; Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales; Recommendations on Accounting Principles; Replacement cost; Stock valuation

Indexed keywords

EID: 14544296106     PISSN: 09585206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585200500032701     Document Type: Review

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