Exploring social, political and economic dimensions of accounting in the global context: The International Accounting Standards Board and accounting disaggregation

Socio-Economic Review

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 633-664

  Gallhofer, Sonja ^a   Haslam, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounting disaggregation; Accounting standards; Corporate governance; Financial institutions; IASB; Internationalization; Regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 35649001385     PISSN: 14751461     EISSN: 1475147X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwm012     Document Type: Article

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