Financial accounting
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ISBN: 9780077506902
Author: David J Spieceland Wayne Thomas Don Herrmann
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill
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Chapter 10, Problem 22RQ
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To explain: How the comparison of earnings per share for the same company over time is useful, but the comparison of earnings per share between two competing companies.
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