Value relevance of voluntary disclosure in the annual report

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 159-180

  Banghøj, Jesper ^a   Plenborg, Thomas ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Disclosure; Future earnings; Informativeness

Indexed keywords

EID: 43649086970     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2007.00240.x     Document Type: Article

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