Corporate citizenship and earnings attributes

Advances in Accounting

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 40-48

  Laksmana, Indrarini ^a   Yang, Ya wen ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accrual quality; Corporate social responsibility; Earnings persistence; Earnings predictability; Earnings smoothness

Indexed keywords

EID: 65049083806     PISSN: 08826110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.adiac.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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