Analytics in empirical/archival financial accounting research

Business Horizons

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 583-593

  Crawley, Michael ^a   Wahlen, James ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accounting information; Analytics; Earnings; Financial accounting research; Stock returns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906052061     PISSN: 00076813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2014.05.002     Document Type: Article

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