Financial Accounting
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ISBN: 9780078025549
Author: J. David Spiceland, Wayne M Thomas, Don Herrmann
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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5. In performing horizontal analysis, why is it important to look at both the amount and the percentage change?
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