Voluntary disclosure in R&D-intensive industries

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 489-522

  Jones, Denise A ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Financial analysts; Forecast error; Research and development; Voluntary disclosure

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547747281     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: 19113846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1506/g3m3-2532-514h-1517     Document Type: Article

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