Accounting, intangible assets, stock market activity, and measurement and disclosure policy - Views from the U.K.

Abacus

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 312-341

  Dedman, Elisabeth ^a   Mouselli, Sulaiman ^b   Shen, Yun ^a   Stark, Andrew W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounting policy; Asset pricing; Disclosure regulation; Intangibles; Value relevance

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349143097     PISSN: 00013072     EISSN: 14676281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6281.2009.00291.x     Document Type: Article

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