Financial Accounting (5th Edition) (What's New in Accounting)
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ISBN: 9780134727790
Author: Robert Kemp, Jeffrey Waybright
Publisher: PEARSON
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Colleen Fernandez, president of Rhino Enterprises, applied for a $175,000 loan from First Federal Bank. The bank requested financial statements from Rhino Enterprises as a basis for granting the loan. Colleen has told her accountant to provide the bank with a balance sheet. Colleen has decided to omit the other financial statements because there was a net loss during the past year.
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Financial Accounting (5th Edition) (What's New in Accounting)
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