Earnings Management (EM), Initiatives and Company Size: An Empirical Study
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Polytechnica Hungarica
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1785-8860,2064-2687
DOI: 10.12700/aph.17.9.2020.9.3