The impact of mandatory IFRS adoption on equity valuation of accounting numbers for security investors in the EU

European Accounting Review

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 535-578

  Aharony, Joseph ^a,b   Barniv, Ran ^c   Falk, Haim ^a,d  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

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EID: 77956553288     PISSN: 09638180     EISSN: 14684497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638180.2010.506285     Document Type: Article

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