Corporate debt financing and earnings quality

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 37, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 538-559

  Ghosh, Aloke ^a   Moon, Doocheol ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurial Marketing   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Accruals quality; Debt financing; Earnings quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955389385     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2010.02194.x     Document Type: Article

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