The perils of pensions: Does pension accounting lead investors and analysts astray?

Accounting Review

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 925-955

  Picconi, Marc ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysts; Earnings management; Forecasts; Pensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747517205     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2006.81.4.925     Document Type: Article

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