The effect of legislation on corporate disclosure practices

Abacus

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 92-109

  Owusu Ansah, Stephen ^a   Yeoh, Joanna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

^b Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Disclosure; Financial reporting; New Zealand

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944480910     PISSN: 00013072     EISSN: 14676281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6281.2005.00171.x     Document Type: Article

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