Financialized accounts: Share buy-backs, mark to market and holding the financial line in the S&P 500

Accounting Forum

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 165-178

  Andersson, Tord ^a   Haslam, Colin ^a   Lee, Edward ^a   Tsitisianis, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fair value accounting; Financialization; Mark to market; Share buy backs; Treasury stock

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247582772     PISSN: 01559982     EISSN: 14676303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.accfor.2006.11.002     Document Type: Article

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