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Pictures and the bottom line: The television epistemology of U.S. annual reports

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  • Graves, O. Finley
  • Flesher, Dale L.
  • Jordan, Robert E.

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  • Graves, O. Finley & Flesher, Dale L. & Jordan, Robert E., 1996. "Pictures and the bottom line: The television epistemology of U.S. annual reports," Accounting, Organizations and Society, Elsevier, vol. 21(1), pages 57-88, January.
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