Human capital reporting in a developing nation

British Accounting Review

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 251-268

  Abeysekera, Indra ^a,c   Guthrie, James ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Dynamic Accounting   (Australia)

Author keywords

Annual reports; Content analysis; Developing nation; Human capital; Human capital reporting; Intellectual capital; Knowledge economy; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

EID: 17144387094     PISSN: 08908389     EISSN: 10958347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2004.03.004     Document Type: Article

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