The impact of early XBRL adoption on analysts' forecast accuracy - Empirical evidence from China

Electronic Markets

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 47-55

  Liu, Chunhui ^a   Yao, Lee Jian ^b   Sia, Choon Ling ^c   Wei, Kwok Kee ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

e Business IT business value; Innovation diffusion; Online financial reporting; XBRL adoption

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896395919     PISSN: 10196781     EISSN: 14228890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12525-013-0132-8     Document Type: Article

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