Accounting reform in Australia: Contrasting cases of agenda building

Abacus

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 379-404

  Jones, Stewart ^a   Rahman, Sheikh F ^b   Wolnizer, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accounting; CLERP; Harmonization; Market price; Standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750198154     PISSN: 00013072     EISSN: 14676281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6281.2004.00163.x     Document Type: Article

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