Exploring the forecasting potential of company annual reports

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 43, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Xin, Ying Qiu ^a   Srinivasan, Padmini ^a   Street, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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EID: 33847685156     PISSN: 15508390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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