Accounting for idle capacity: Its place in the historical cost literature and conjecture about its disappearance

Accounting Historians Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-49

  Vollmers, Gloria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

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EID: 85009345406     PISSN: 01484184     EISSN: 23274468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/0148-4184.23.1.25     Document Type: Article

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