GFC or KFC?: How Standard Setters Were Battered and Fried

Australian Accounting Review

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-13

  Howieson, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

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EID: 79952608847     PISSN: 10356908     EISSN: 18352561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1835-2561.2010.00115.x     Document Type: Article

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