Reflections on stewardship reporting

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 215-227

  O'Connell, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Accountability; Control; Decision usefulness; Financial reporting; IASB FASB Conceptual Framework; Stewardship reporting

Indexed keywords

EID: 41849109530     PISSN: 08887993     EISSN: 15587975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/acch.2007.21.2.215     Document Type: Article

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