Capitalized intangibles and financial analysts

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 457-479

  Matolcsy, Zoltan ^a   Wyatt, Anne ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analyst following; Forecast dispersion; Forecast errors; Intangible assets

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747500689     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629x.2006.00177.x     Document Type: Article

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