Compliance with IFRS disclosure requirements and individual analysts' forecast errors

Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-13

  Hodgdon, Christopher ^a   Tondkar, Rasoul H ^b   Harless, David W ^b   Adhikari, Ajay ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disclosure index; Forecast error; IFRS compliance; Individual analyst forecasts

Indexed keywords

EID: 40649088006     PISSN: 10619518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intaccaudtax.2008.01.002     Document Type: Article

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