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Timely financial reporting at corporate web sites?

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Considering the competitive advantage of having current financial information available online, it's curious how few institutions actually succeed in this regard.

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          cover image Communications of the ACM
          Communications of the ACM  Volume 45, Issue 6
          Adaptive middleware
          June 2002
          96 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/508448
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