Financial reporting quality, private information, monitoring, and the lease-versus-buy decision

Accounting Review

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1215-1238

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

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Financial reporting quality; Lease versus buy; Monitoring; Private information

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956065256     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr.2010.85.4.1215     Document Type: Article

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