The effect of investor sophistication on the influence of nonfinancial performance indicators on investors' judgments

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 263-280

  Coram, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservatism; Nonfinancial performance indicators; Nonprofessional investors; Task specific knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953549598     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2009.00328.x     Document Type: Article

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