Effects of accounting-method choices on subjective performance-measure weighting decisions: Experimental evidence on precision and error covariance

Accounting Review

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1163-1192

  Krishnan, Ranjani ^a   Luft, Joan L ^a   Shields, Michael D ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision performance; Incentive compensation; Mental models; Performance measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844519695     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2005.80.4.1163     Document Type: Review

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