Experimental research in financial reporting: From the laboratory to the virtual world

Foundations and Trends in Accounting

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-85

  Bloomfield, Robert ^a   Rennekamp, Kristina ^a  

^a SAS Institute Inc   (United States)

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EID: 74549158490     PISSN: 15540642     EISSN: 15540650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1561/1400000012     Document Type: Article

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