Principles of Accounting
Principles of Accounting
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Author: Belverd E. Needles, Marian Powers, Susan V. Crosson
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Find out the qualitative characteristic or accounting convention that can be applied in each of the cases given and find out whether the treatment is in accordance with the accounting concept and GAAP.

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