The war of the sidewardly mobile corporate financial report

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 419-455

  Lee, T A ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academics; Corporate financial reporting; Fraud; Historical cost accounting; Professionalism; Public interest; Social reality construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645876459     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: 10959955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2004.09.001     Document Type: Article

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