The efficacy of liquidation and bankruptcy prediction models for assessing going concern

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 18, Issue , 2003, Pages 577-590

  Kuruppu, Nirosh ^a   Oyelere, Peter ^a   Laswad, Fawzi ^b  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy; Corporate finances; Going concern value; Insolvency; Liquidation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986136023     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686900310482713     Document Type: Review

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