Accounting choices: Variation in managerial opportunism

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 29, Issue 7-8, 2002, Pages 1047-1078

  Heflin, Frank ^a   Kwon, Sung S ^b   Wild, John J ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

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EID: 41849098057     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5957.00461     Document Type: Article

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