Disclosure quality and earnings management

Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-20

  Lobo, Gerald J ^a   Zhou, Jian ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

disclosure quality; earnings management

Indexed keywords

EID: 85148093602     PISSN: 16081625     EISSN: 21642257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16081625.2001.10510584     Document Type: Article

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