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Melbourne football club recently signed $10 million agreements with new players for the next 3 years. Management is currently wondering how to treat this payment in its financial records. Should this payment be treated as an expense in the income statement or assume new players as an asset and record in the balance sheet . You are required to compare the definitions of asset with expense and then identify solution to the above situation.
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