Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
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ISBN: 9780078025914
Author: Fred Phillips Associate Professor, Robert Libby, Patricia Libby
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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To identify: the companies as growing start-up companies (S), a healthy established company (E) and an established company facing financial difficulties (F) based on
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Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
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