'True and fair' and 'fair value' - Accounting and legal will-o'-the-wisps

Abacus

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Dean, Graeme ^a   Clarke, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 27844468787     PISSN: 00013072     EISSN: 14676281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6281.2005.00174.x     Document Type: Editorial

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