Earnings management among bankrupt non-listed firmsevidence from Spain

  1. Campa, Domenico
  2. Camacho Miñano, María del Mar
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Revista española de financiación y contabilidad

ISSN: 0210-2412

Año de publicación: 2014

Número: 161

Páginas: 3-20

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1080/02102412.2014.890820 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

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We acknowledge the support of Complutense University of Madrid and BSCH project No. 931559 of INIFCO Research Troup. We thank Dr Javier Martinez for his help in relation to the legal topics, Dr Manuel Nuñez for his useful suggestions and the participants to the workshop held at the Complutense University of Madrid for their helpful insights. We also appreciated the support of the two editors in charge for this manuscript, Dr. Juan Manuel García Lara and Dr. Beatriz García Osma and one anonymous reviewer, since their comments and suggestions significantly improved the quality of our work. Last, but not least, we express our gratitude to the executive editor Dr. Pablo de Andrés Alonso for all his assistance.

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