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Brett Trueman, Sheridan Titman, An Explanation for Accounting Income Smoothing, Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 26, Studies on Management's Ability and Incentives to Affect the Timing and Magnitude of Accounting Accruals (1988), pp. 127-139
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