Impact of international financial reporting standard adoption on key financial ratios

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 341-361

  Lantto, Anna Maija ^a   Sahlström, Petri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Financial ratios; IFRS; International financial reporting standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 65649112504     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2008.00283.x     Document Type: Article

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