Conformity and diversity of accounting and financial reporting practices in portuguese local government

Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 2-14

  Da Costa Carvalho, João Baptista ^a   Camões, Pedro J ^a   Jorge, Susana Margarida ^b   Fernandes, Maria José ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c Instituto Politcnico do Cvado e do Ave   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Compliance; Diversity; Financial and budgetary reporting; Local government accounting; Portugal

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547373220     PISSN: 08250383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjas.1     Document Type: Article

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