The usefulness of direct and indirect cash flow disclosures

Review of Accounting Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 383-404

  Clinch, Greg ^a   Sidhu, Baljit ^b   Sin, Samantha ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accruals; Capital markets; Cash flows

Indexed keywords

EID: 40649104880     PISSN: 13806653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020759511460     Document Type: Article

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