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100 1 0 _aDumontier, Pascal
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700 1 0 _a Raffournier, Bernard
_eauthor
245 0 0 _aTwenty Years of Positive Accounting Research in Financial Accounting
260 _c1999.
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520 _aThe objectives of positive accounting research are twofold. First, it is aimed at determining the usefulness of accounting numbers for valuation purposes by investigating the relation between accounting figures and stock prices. Second it provides explanations of accounting practices by focusing on agency and political costs. This article reviews the positive accounting literature. It describes its evolution and the current state of positive accounting theory.
690 _afinancial accounting
690 _apositivism
690 _afinancial market
690 _aaccounting decision
690 _aaccounting history
786 0 _nAccounting Auditing Control | Volume 5 | 3 | 1999-12-01 | p. 179-197 | 1262-2788
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-accounting-auditing-control-1999-3-page-179?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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