Comprehensive income: Who's afraid of performance reporting?

Accounting Review

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 97-126

  Bamber, Linda Smith ^a   Jiang, John ^b   Petroni, Kathy R ^b   Wang, Isabel Yanyan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounting choice; Comprehensive income; Executive compensation; Managerial job security

Indexed keywords

EID: 77149161738     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2010.85.1.97     Document Type: Review

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