Regulatory competition in accounting. A history of the Accounting Standards Authority of Canada

Accounting History Review

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 95-114

  Richardson, Alan J ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accounting Standards Authority of Canada; Embeddedness of standardsetting; Regulatory competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960074836     PISSN: 21552851     EISSN: 2155286X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21552851.2011.548570     Document Type: Article

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