Discretionary write-downs, write-offs, and other restructuring provisions: A signalling approach

Accounting and Business Research

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 109-121

  Frantz, Pascal ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 71949086204     PISSN: 00014788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00014788.1999.9729573     Document Type: Article

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