On the social value of accounting objectivity in financial stability

@article{Liang2019OnTS,
  title={On the social value of accounting objectivity in financial stability},
  author={Pierre Jinghong Liang and Gaoqing Zhang},
  journal={The Accounting Review},
  year={2019},
  volume={94},
  pages={229-248}
}
ABSTRACT In this paper, we analyze the social value of accounting objectivity in maintaining financial stability. Building on an early influential accounting study by Ijiri and Jaedicke (1966), we ... 
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