More evidence of bias in the differential timeliness measure of conditional conservatism

Accounting Review

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1765-1793

  Patatoukas, Panos N ^a   Thomas, Jacob K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservatism; Differential timeliness; Losses; Scaling by share price

Indexed keywords

EID: 80155204461     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr-10101     Document Type: Article

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