Earnings management and corporate social responsibility: An in-class exercise to illustrate the short-term and long-term consequences

Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-25

  Fischer, Carol M ^a   Fischer, Michael J ^a  

^a ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84897586222     PISSN: 10854622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S1085-4622(2009)0000010003     Document Type: Article

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