CFO gender and accruals quality

Accounting Horizons

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-39

  Barua, Abhijit ^a   Davidson, Lewis F ^a   Rama, Dasaratha V ^a   Thiruvadi, Sheela ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77950376006     PISSN: 08887993     EISSN: 15587975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/acch.2010.24.1.25     Document Type: Article

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