Rules-based standards and the lack of principles in accounting

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 25-34

  Nobes, Christopher W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33745051691     PISSN: 08887993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/acch.2005.19.1.25     Document Type: Article

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