Accounting for Oil and Gas Exploration Activities: A Triumph of Economics over Politics
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Keywords
Full cost versus successful efforts; oil and gas company valuation; petroleum accounting; value-relevance.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
- M40 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - General
- Q33 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation - - - Resource Booms (Dutch Disease)
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ACC-2015-12-28 (Accounting and Auditing)
- NEP-ENE-2015-12-28 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-FOR-2015-12-28 (Forecasting)
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