Creating early success in financial accounting: Improving performance on adjusting journal entries

Accounting Perspectives

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 87-96

  Phillips, Fred ^a   Schmidt, Regan N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognition; Education; Intervention; Journal entries

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954292458     PISSN: 1911382X     EISSN: 19113838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1911-3838.2010.00006.x     Document Type: Article

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