Accuracy in judging the nonlinear effects of cost and profit drivers

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1139-1169

  Farrell, Anne M ^a   Luft, Joan ^b   Shields, Michael D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal relations; Judgement performance; Nonlinearity; Performance measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 37549058430     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: 19113846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1506/car.24.4.4     Document Type: Article

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