Research, standard setting, and global financial reporting

Foundations and Trends in Accounting

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 71-165

  Barth, Mary E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 69949173125     PISSN: 15540642     EISSN: 15540650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1561/1400000002     Document Type: Article

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