Does graduate business education contribute to professional accounting success?

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 85-100

  Hunton, James E ^a   Stone, Dan N ^b   Wier, Benson ^c  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Job performance; Professional success; Tacit knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751114684     PISSN: 08887993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/acch.2005.19.2.85     Document Type: Article

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