Financial reporting discretion and voluntary disclosure: Corporate research and development expenditure in Australia

Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-31

  Percy, Majella ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agency theory; Disclosure; Information asymmetry; RandD; Research and development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961932838     PISSN: 16081625     EISSN: 21642257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16081625.2000.10510572     Document Type: Article

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