Affiliated banker on board and conservative accounting

Accounting Review

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1703-1728

  Erkens, David H ^a   Subramanyam, K R ^a,b   Zhang, Jieying ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Affiliated banker on board; Conservative accounting; Debt contracting; Lender monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962721939     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr-50798     Document Type: Article

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