Motivations behind human capital disclosure in annual reports

Accounting Forum

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 16-29

  Abeysekera, Indra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capital accumulation; Content analysis; Human capital; Political economy of accounting; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149091396     PISSN: 01559982     EISSN: 14676303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.accfor.2006.11.006     Document Type: Article

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