Artificial neural networks and the accounting method choice in the oil and gas industry

Information and Organization

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 169-181

  Spear, Nasser A ^a   Leis, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b KPMG   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accounting method choice; Full cost; Logit models; Multiple discriminant analysis; Neural networks; Oil and gas; Successful efforts

Indexed keywords

EID: 9144261336     PISSN: 14717727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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