The effect of private information and monitoring on the role of accounting quality in investment decisions

Contemporary Accounting Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-47

  Beatty, Anne ^a   Scott Liao, W ^b   Weber, Joseph ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounting Quality; Investment; Monitoring; Private information

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952356258     PISSN: 08239150     EISSN: 19113846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1911-3846.2010.01000.x     Document Type: Article

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