The relevance to firm valuation of capitalising intangible assets in total and by category

Australian Accounting Review

Volumn 11, Issue 24, 2001, Pages 39-48

  Godfrey, Jayne ^a   Koh, Ping Sheng ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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EID: 33750162877     PISSN: 10356908     EISSN: 18352561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1835-2561.2001.tb00186.x     Document Type: Letter

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