Financial Management Practices in Small Businesses: Regional and Metropolitan

Small Enterprise Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-63

  Kennedy, Jessica ^a   Tennent, Beth ^a   Gibson, Brian ^b  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

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EID: 51249096405     PISSN: 13215906     EISSN: 11750979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/ser.14.1.55     Document Type: Article

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