Users’ perceptions of various aspects of Kuwaiti corporate reporting

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 18, Issue , 2003, Pages 599-617

  Naser, Kamal ^a   Nuseibeh, Rana ^a   Al Hussaini, Ahmad ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Corporate communications; Corporate finances; Kuwait; Reports

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986134889     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686900310482731     Document Type: Article

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