Disclosure of the impacts of adopting Australian equivalents of International Financial Reporting Standards

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 847-870

  Palmer, Philip D ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agency theory; International accounting standards; Mandatory disclosure; Voluntary disclosure

Indexed keywords

EID: 54849435054     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2008.00262.x     Document Type: Article

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