Advanced Accounting
Advanced Accounting
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ISBN: 9781305084858
Author: Paul M. Fischer, William J. Tayler, Rita H. Cheng
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Introduction: Acquisition is a corporate term used to represent purchase of another company and gaining the ownership of the company.

Whether it is gain on acquisition or goodwill.

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