In 2018 AXA Company faced serious liquidity problems. Management decided to window dress the financial statements in a manner that improved the company's current ratios in order to hide the liquidity problem of the situation. However, in 2019 the company came out of liquidity problem and stopped window dressing practice. - which kind of qualitative characteristics of useful financial information in this case

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