Accounting standards: Rules, principles, or wild guesses?;Les normes comptables: Règles, principes ou jeu de hasard?

Canadian Accounting Perspectives

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 195-212

  Beechy, Thomas H ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Estimates; Judgment; Principles; Standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 28844444198     PISSN: 14998653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1506/AR61-E5HE-C208-N8XB     Document Type: Review

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