Payback without apology

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-10

  Boyle, Glenn ^a   Guthrie, Graeme ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Capital budgeting; Investment timing; Payback

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644925299     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2006.00158.x     Document Type: Article

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