Abnormal Accruals in Newly Public Companies: Opportunistic Misreporting or Economic Activity?

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  2016

• Venue

  Management Sciences

• Publication date

  2016-05-01

• Fields of study

  Business, Economics, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1287/mnsc.2015.2179
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