Accounting for software development costs and information asymmetry

Accounting Review

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1211-1231

  Mohd, Emad ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capitalization; Information asymmetry; Intangibles; SFAS No. 86; Software development costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844435090     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2005.80.4.1211     Document Type: Review

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