Without ‘reinventing the wheel’: Business accounting applied to the public sector

Australian Accounting Review

Volumn 13, Issue 30, 2003, Pages 22-27

  Christensen, Mark ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 85006540360     PISSN: 10356908     EISSN: 18352561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1835-2561.2003.tb00396.x     Document Type: Note

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