Private equity involvement and earnings quality

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 36, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 587-615

  Beuselinck, Christof ^a   Deloof, Marc ^b   Manigart, Sophie ^c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conditional conservatism; Earnings quality; Loss recognition timeliness; Private equity

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349154820     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2009.02147.x     Document Type: Article

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