Nonfinancial disclosure and analyst forecast accuracy: International evidence on corporate social responsibility disclosure

Accounting Review

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 723-759

  Dhaliwal, Dan S ^a   Radhakrishnan, Suresh ^b   Tsang, Albert ^c   Yang, Yong George ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Analyst forecasts; Corporate social responsibility; Nonfinancial disclosure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870593416     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr-10218     Document Type: Article

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