Rules, rogues, and risk assessors: Academic responses to Enron and other accounting scandals

European Accounting Review

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 363-372

  Ravenscroft, Sue ^a   Williams, Paul F ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

accounting education; accounting scandals; decision usefulness; Rules versus principles

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750951475     PISSN: 09638180     EISSN: 14684497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638180500124889     Document Type: Article

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