Incentive contracting and value relevance of earnings and cash flows

Journal of Accounting Research

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 647-678

  Banker, Rajiv D ^a   Huang, Rong ^b   Natarajan, Ramachandran ^c  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

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EID: 63849149987     PISSN: 00218456     EISSN: 1475679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-679X.2009.00335.x     Document Type: Article

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