The order of teaching accounting topics-why do most textbooks end with the beginning?

Accounting Education

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-14

  Wouters, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cash flows; Introductory accounting; Survey of textbooks

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054854511     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639280701838615     Document Type: Article

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