Australian evidence on student expectations and perceptions of introductory business finance

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 697-713

  Balachandran, Balasingham ^a   Skully, Michael ^a   Tant, Kevin ^a   Watson, John ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Expectations; Introductory finance; Perceptions; Students

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751161053     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629x.2006.00193.x     Document Type: Article

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