Is older goodwill value relevant?

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 519-535

  Bugeja, Martin ^a   Gallery, Natalie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accounting standards; Goodwill; Value relevance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750160939     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2006.00181.x     Document Type: Article

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