Operating and synthetic leases: Exploiting financial benefits in the post-Enron era

Advances in Accounting

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 28-39

  Duke, Joanne C ^a   Hsieh, Su Jane ^a   Su, Yuli ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital leases; Constructive capitalization; Off balance sheet reporting; Operating leases

Indexed keywords

EID: 65049083992     PISSN: 08826110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.adiac.2009.03.001     Document Type: Article

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