An empirical investigation of earnings restatements by Australian firms

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-22

  Ahmed, Kamran ^a   Goodwin, John ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Earnings restatements; Firm characteristics; Value relevance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847371314     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2006.00196.x     Document Type: Article

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