Fair value accounting for liabilities and own credit risk

Accounting Review

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 629-664

  Barth, Mary E ^a   Hodder, Leslie D ^b   Stubben, Stephen R ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Credit risk; Debt; Fair value accounting; Income recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 46049096339     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2008.83.3.629     Document Type: Article

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