Advanced Accounting - Standalone book
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ISBN: 9780077862220
Author: Joe Ben Hoyle, Thomas Schaefer, Timothy Doupnik
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Explain why the amount of this adjustment reduced from year to year.
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