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ISBN: 9780133428704

Author: Charles T. Horngren, Srikant M. Datar, Madhav V. Rajan

Publisher: PEARSON

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“A customer-profitability profile highlights those customers a company should drop to improve profitability.” Do you agree? Explain.

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