IFRS and the accounting consensus

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 101-111

  Sunder, Shyam ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounting education; Accounting standards; IFRS; Uniformity

Indexed keywords

EID: 76349102915     PISSN: 08887993     EISSN: 15587975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/acch.2009.23.1.101     Document Type: Note

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