Corporate communication of financial risk

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 417-446

  Taylor, Grantley ^a   Tower, Greg ^a   Neilson, John ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Audit qualification; Capital raisings; Corporate governance; Financial risk management; IFRS; Overseas listing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953598950     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2009.00326.x     Document Type: Article

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