Innate and discretionary accruals quality and corporate governance

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 171-195

  Kent, Pamela ^a   Routledge, James ^a   Stewart, Jenny ^b  

^a BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accruals quality; Corporate governance; Discretionary; Innate

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950235534     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2009.00321.x     Document Type: Article

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