Estimating and validating a firm-year-specific measure of conservatism: Australian evidence

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 673-695

  Lai, Cheng ^a   Taylor, Stephen L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservatism; Earnings; Timeliness

Indexed keywords

EID: 54849410840     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2008.00270.x     Document Type: Article

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