Corporate disclosure quality: Lessons from Australian companies on the impact of adopting international financial reporting standards

Australian Accounting Review

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 257-273

  Gallery, Gerry ^a   Cooper, Emerson ^b   Sweeting, John ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b PKF ^*  (Switzerland)

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EID: 69049107500     PISSN: 10356908     EISSN: 18352561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1835-2561.2008.0030.x     Document Type: Article

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