The relation between earnings management and financial statement fraud

Advances in Accounting

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-53

  Perols, Johan L ^a   Lougee, Barbara A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Analyst forecasts; Earnings management; Fraud; Unexpected Revenue per Employee

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958836094     PISSN: 08826110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.adiac.2010.10.004     Document Type: Article

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