Quarterly accruals or cash flows in portfolio construction?

Financial Analysts Journal

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Livnat, Joshua ^a   López Espinosa, Germán ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

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EID: 46749140967     PISSN: 0015198X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2469/faj.v64.n3.7     Document Type: Article

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