Financial Accounting
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ISBN: 9781259307959
Author: J. David Spiceland, Wayne M Thomas, Don Herrmann
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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To Explain: The difficulty created by the different accounting practices being followed by various countries, for the Multinational corporations.
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